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Perspective: Africa - September 2016 Photo: Leigh Barrett Photo: HelenSTB Top Left: The defaced statue of Louis Botha, First South African Prime Minister (19101919). Cape Town, 2015. Top Right: After the 2015 “Rhodes Must Fall” student protests, the nose on the Cecil John Rhodes statue at the Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, was damaged. Below: The statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town is removed after the 2015 protests. Rhodes served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 - 1896. 28 Photo: Desmond Bowles