Rhodes, as a homosexual, saw himself a victim of society’s then structural conditions and expectations, writes Simon Lincoln Reader NEARLY 20 years ago, I sat at a table opposite Anton Rupert at Decameron in Stellenbosch. The waitress had barely introduced herself when he asked what she was studying and how her studies were progressing; about her family, her previous school, where she was from.She mentioned a town in what is now North West. He said something about the writer Herman Charles Bosman.The exchange was disarming, gentle and authentic. What I’d heard and read about the man was reconciled: that he could be as he was and have done what he had done was not in the least surprising.The Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement reached its logical conclusion last week when the leader of its University of Oxford franchise accomplished the astonishing feat of reducing a waitress to tears.Ntokozo Qwabe, accompanied by someone he described as a "radical nonbinary trans" (sounds delightfully a...
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