Problematic Statues In Public Spaces in Cape Town

By muvhuti
  • Castle of Good Hope

    Castle of Good Hope
    Oldest building in SACastle of Good Hope was completed in 1679. To this day it has become a permanent feature of the Cape Town landscape. As permanent as The Table Mountain
  • Krotoa

    Krotoa She was buried at the Castle
  • Cecil John Rhodes

    Cecil John Rhodes
  • Louis Botha

    Louis Botha
    Farmer Warrior StatesmanA statue of Louis Botha on Stal Plein in front of the Houes of Parliament in Cape Town. It was made by Raffaello Romanelli. Lady Helen de Waal, wife of Sir Frederick de Waal, Administrator of the Cape Province, unveiled the statue on 10 February 1931.
  • The Dead Duce

    MussoliniMussolini's body vanished from the unmarked grave
  • Maria de la Quellarie

    Maria de la Quellarie
    Maria van Riebeeck
    Mother of the white Afrikaans
  • District Six Declared Whites-Only Area

    Forced RemovalsForced Removals
  • Berlin Wall

    East and West Germany mergeThe End of History - Fukuyama From then on the destruction of unpopular monuments became known as the "Berlin Syndrome"
  • Budapest Memento Park

    Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Engels"This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship" Ákos Eleőd
  • Free South Africa

    TRCReconciliation, Forgiveness, Rainbow Nation
  • Nobel Square Memorial

    Unity, Ubuntu, PeaceUnveiled on Reconciliation Day - The Laureates for Peace (Tutu, Luthuli, De Klerk and Madiba)
  • Franco's Staue cames down

  • EFF

    EFFLouis Botha cannot be our hero - Malema's first speech at parliaament
  • Rhodes leaves UCT

    Rhodes Must FallRhodes Fell due to the pressure of students and staff at UCT
  • Stellenbosch University removes plaque of Verwoerd

    Verwoerd Replaced by the South African flag
  • Davis Jafferson Falls

    Just need an incident so many years afterConfederate Monuments taken down after Charlestone incident