the Cecil Rhodes statue

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

 Students surround the statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes as it is removed from the campus at the University of Cape Town. Photograph: Schalk Van Zuydam/AP

There are ways of recognising the crimes of our imperial past short of the mass removal of statues and wholesale changing of street names. ...read on