Mandela, Rhodes - what do they have in common?

From: New African | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE

The seventh Will of Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch colonialist (left), created an educational grant known as the 'Rhodes Scholarship' in 1902, But in recent weeks, hairs have been torn over the addition of the Mandela name to the Rhodes Foundation. Shingai Rukwata Ndoro reports.

Every year adverts are placed in newspapers inviting Africans to apply for the Rhodes Scholarships. In Zimbabwe, they are awarded through a local and secretive Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee whose membership contains a proportion of those who have themselves been Rhodes Scholars.

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