Councillors demand Cecil Rhodes statue removal and call on Oxford University to 'decolonise'
decided not to remove the statue in High Street in 2016It denied claims previously that donors threatened to withdraw more than £100m of funding if the statue was removed.
"failed to address its institutional racism" and set out a series of demands to"make upholding anti-racist values a reality". Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat Oxford West and Abingdon MP, said the Rhodes statue"must come down" but said she did not endorse"vigilante action". Born the son of a vicar in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, in 1853, he first went to Africa at the age of 17; grew cotton with his brother in Natal, but moved into diamond mining, founding De Beers, which until recently controlled the global trade
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