"Botha must fall! The symbols of colonialism must fall!" Chant young South Africans at the feet of the statue of Louis Botha, military chief of the first whites settled in South Africa, in Cape Town.

In the parliamentary capital of South Africa, symbols of the colonial past are everywhere and more and more young people no longer want the statues of these personalities. Already in 2015, students from Cape Town had unbolted the statue of Cecil Rhodes [Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa and whose territory bore the name, such as Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) or Southern Rhodesia (now Rhodesia then Zimbabwe)].

In the country, certain artists, like Dali Tambo (son of the first president of the ANC), plead for the installation in the public space of large black figures to give back to the young people their "anti-racist heritage".

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