Oxford college installs plaque calling Cecil Rhodes a ‘committed colonialist’

Explanatory panel next to statue also says mining magnate exploited the ‘peoples of southern Africa’

A college at the University of Oxford has installed a plaque next to a statue of the mining magnate and politician Cecil Rhodes, describing him as “committed British colonialist” who exploited the “peoples of southern Africa”.

The explanatory panel about the former prime minister of the Cape Colony has been placed outside Oriel College, where he had studied and left £100,000 – about £12.5m in today’s money – through his will in 1902.

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