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BREAKING NEWS: Rhodes’ Grave Desecrated By War Vets, They Plan To Dump Skeleton In Indian Ocean
29 December 2014
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Cecil John Rhodes’ grave in Matopos Hills 45 km south of Bulawayo, in the National park and Matabeleland south, province has been vandalized by suspected disgruntled war veterans.
The tomb’s cover is now variously scribbled, most probably by a sharp instrument. According to villagers who refused to be named, some disgruntled war vets, were heard planning to exhume the remains and take them to the Indian Ocean, where they want to dump them.
Rhodes who died in 1902 was buried at the Matopos National park together with one of his colleagues, Leander Jameson. The place which is a property of the National Monuments & Museums Department has been regarded as one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions.
As shown in pictures which ZimEye possesses, the grave has been tampered with, and some words have been inscribed most probably after failing to open the grave.
Rhodes was born in 1853 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. He was the fifth son of the Reverend Francis William Rhodes and his wife Louisa Peacock Rhodes.
He wanted to expand the British Empire because he believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined for greatness.
Rhodes who never married, pleading “I have too much work on my hands” and saying that he would not be a dutiful husband, has no descendants.
ZimEye visited the National Museum and Monuments Head Office in Harare and talked to Doctor Mahachi who blamed the vandalism on some sections of Zimbabwe’s Liberation War fighters who wanted Rhodes remains to be removed and relocated to England.
Dr Mahachi also ruled out placing security at the Matopos grave site, and appealed to the people of Zimbabwe to look after their tourist attraction. The grave is considered a revered attraction to foreign tourists from all over the world.
A snap survey by ZimEye revealed that a number of Zimbabweans are against the vandalism of this famous grave and that it is part of the country’s heritage. Several people in and around the Matobo district blamed the perpetrators, and openly expressed their opinions that this burial site should not be tampered with.
Norah Gwanzura an educationist added her voice in blaming the vandalism and the intention to destroy the grave. She told ZimEye that if anybody wanted the grave removed, they should also remove other historical places and see if that will make any sense.
Leonard Magorose, a Pastor with ZAOGA, also discouraged the relocation of the grave and pleaded with those offended by it to learn to forgive mistakes of the past.
A selective group of people in Zimbabwe wanted the grave removed because of colonial insinuations
“But would such a drastic move serve any logical purpose, given the financial difficulties being experienced by this embattled country, which is in dire need of whatever hard currency it may get,” said Simon Bhebhe of Kezi who is also a war vet.

83 Replies to “BREAKING NEWS: Rhodes’ Grave Desecrated By War Vets, They Plan To Dump Skeleton In Indian Ocean”

  4. as long you feel that way you will remain a slave, he will never be your former slave master but remain your slave master…..

  10. The truth is like gravity, whether you believe if it’s there or not, it will always act on you; My friend unless these war vets and yourself you repent you will remember Messenger of GOD’s message, and cry out “i should have”…….say what you want or think have learnt, the truth does not change, but your words will just show how an academic without Christ is devil’s tool and that there is folly in them……you can’t take your words from Messenger but you can still repent…

  14. We all need to grow up and be brothers for the future, what happened in Africa is now history, lets all build the continent together with love and countability, we cannot afford to let some destroy with their bad attitude a wonderful oppertunity this land has.

  15. Look out for the new Chinese home land coming our way, new masters big takeaway of all Africa

  16. Those marauding idiots could be put to good use for an example they could be used to repair our national roads or to dig the Zambezi water pipeline instead of running around disecreting graves and raping donkeys.

  18. WE DON’T NEED BLOOD MONEY, OUR AIM IS TO PLEASE OUR ANCESTORS ANA NEHANDA AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS

  20. I CONCUR, THE SOONER THE BETTER. I ALSO AGREE THAT AFTER THE CARCASS IS REMOVED FROM THE LAND OF NEHANDA MUDZIMU MUKURU WE SHALL PROSPER BEYOND MEASURE..GO ON MAGANDANGA!

  27. WHAT BIG PICTURE? RHODES IS OUR FORMER SLAVE MASTER AND WE HAVE NO LINK WITH HIM SO WHY HAVE HIS KAK IN OUR MIDST?

  28. WHAT BIG PICTURE? RHODES IS OUR FORMER SLAVE MASTER AND WE HAVE NO LINK WITH HIM SO WHY HAVE HIS KAK IN OUR MIDST?

  29. THE TERRORIST IS A GRIM REMINDER OF OUR HISTORY THAT INVOLVES ENSLAVEMENT SUBJUGATION,RAPE,PILLORY OF OUR RESOURCES AND DEHUMANIZATION OF GOD’S PEOPLE, WE SAY GET IT PRONTO

  30. THE TERRORIST IS A GRIM REMINDER OF OUR HISTORY THAT INVOLVES ENSLAVEMENT SUBJUGATION,RAPE,PILLORY OF OUR RESOURCES AND DEHUMANIZATION OF GOD’S PEOPLE, WE SAY GET IT PRONTO

  31. THE TERRORIST IS A GRIM REMINDER OF OUR HISTORY THAT INVOLVES ENSLAVEMENT SUBJUGATION,RAPE,PILLORY OF OUR RESOURCES AND DEHUMANIZATION OF GOD’S PEOPLE

  32. THE TERRORIST IS A GRIM REMINDER OF OUR HISTORY THAT INVOLVES ENSLAVEMENT SUBJUGATION,RAPE,PILLORY OF OUR RESOURCES AND DEHUMANIZATION OF GOD’S PEOPLE

  43. @Omugabe apa hapana watema hauoni mutauro wacho kuti ndidzo mbavha idzi defending zisekuru rawo Ukawatewedzera ungapedzwa urozwi hwako hunebasa guru kuwaka nyika Wakambona kupi mutema anotuka warvet

  44. No need to be offensive Some lan guage b eing used here is not Zimbabwean I think some people are fake Zimbabweans are known the world over of ubuntu We are saying Rhodes remains must be taken off our spiritual place

  45. There is a saying which says “when God gives you lemons, you make lemonade”. That’s called thinking on your feet. There is no doubt that’s Cecil John Rhodes was a horrible man but his bones can make a lot of money for the country, especially people around Matopos Hill. History is what it is, it can not be changed but we can still take advantage of it. Throwing Rhodes’s bones into the ocean is like killing the hen that lays a golden egg. Tava kuda ma war vet anotungamirira muhondo ye upfumi. I am not talking about grabbing other peoples’ businesses and business plans. I am talking about promoting real business initiatives and entrepreneurship. It short tiri kuda vana Strive Masiiwa kwete vana Phillip Chiangwa.

  46. Get real…. You don’t even have your own money, you have to rely on the US dollar from “the invading pale devils”

  48. You need to do your studies and understand we are all from the same Adam family in central Africa, whether you like it or not we are ALL connected. DNA has all the proof you will need to understand the bigger picture.

  49. that place could be anything like Swaziland/Lesotho. Rhodes donated it to the people of Zimbabwe/Rhodesia.

  50. Without Rhodes , Mugabe would never have been educated! What a shame it has come to this ! Ignorant c—s !

  51. Saka muvengi akafa,ikozvino guva rake ranga richikupai mari .Asi hamuchade mari yacho ? Mugabe ari kuzipiwa ari mudukutuku yechikafu asi iwo mabasa mazana akazanirana aakakutsidzirai hapana . Pakadai munongoramba muchiti chichi kumutsigirira nekuparadza nyika , kuita wo here ikoko ?

  52. If you are genuine Zimbabwean, take off hembe dzawakapfeka upfeke nhembe and also abolish the British style parliament newig dzemajudge

  53. Mampara! You and all your retarded idiots have already done that! And how do you propose they are to be replaced? By your new colonial masters the Chinese?

  54. How puerile us Zimbabweans have become. Rhodes is part of history: like it or not. No continent is for one race. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Where does all this hatred and racism come from. Every nation on the face of the earth has been invaded, colonised, conquered during their history. That is man. That is what they do. Some many, many times. Where would the world be today if they could not get past the first and second world wars. For goodness sake Zimbabwe let us grow up and be a nation. We live in the past and it has destroyed us. One of the first rules of very successful people is to NEVER live or dwell on the past. No wonder we are a mess. RGM is one of the worst offenders sadly. He just cannot let go of the past. The war finished 35 years ago for goodness sake. There is a saying that says we lose tomorrow looking back at yesterday and that is exactly what has happened in Zim

  55. Time to take a sledge hammer to those old brick monuments near Fort Vic .. used to be called Zimbabwe Ruins, well Mugabe has ruined the country single-handedly and only remains that should be thrown into the ocean should be his!! Zim veterans, my foot, just a bunch of marauding drug crazies!

  56. U mean scumrade whore vets cowards ? They were given a thorough hiding by smiths gallant valiant sons daughters. They are syphillis ridden retards

  57. Vile filthy inbred backward lazy child-raping wife-beating black whore vet pigs scumrades. Tear u to prices for your ancestral baboons donkeys

  58. Vile filthy inbred backward lazy child-raping wife-beating black whore vet pigs scumrades. Tear u to prices for your ancestral baboons donkeys

  59. Criminals acre will be dug up and the rotting remains of zpuff/zpoo-f terrorists will be given to dogs/pigs. Kikiki

  60. Criminals acre will be dug up and the rotting remains of zpuff/zpoo-f terrorists will be given to dogs/pigs. Kikiki

  61. Big brains benefited and are still benefiting from Rhodes scholarships. For example Professor Lovemore Madhuku. It is being misdirected of the war vets to venge their anger on the grave. They should know that at least people from Matabeleland are gaining from this tourist attration.

  62. Rhodes grave represents the most abominable symbol of the colonization of our country and as long as Rhodes’s skeleton remains in Zimbabwe the country will never be free and all its hidden wealth in terms of minerals, oil and other valuable natural resources will continue to be hidden from us, the generation that venerates colonialism. Oil will be discovered in Zimbabwe moments after Rhodes’s bones are completely removed from Zimbabwean soil, air space and all its environs. The sooner we do that the richer we shall become.

  63. That does not change history. These Chibuku drinking layabouts… idiots will do anything for attention. Next i wouldn’t really be suprised when they start uprooting traffic lights (robots) in the name of getting rid of imperial footprints. F$&*ng imbeciles.

  64. Rhodes brought more development than Mugabe and his government did in the past 34 years. Rhodes loved Zimbabwe more than Mugabe did look where he is hoidaying right now. Some may ask kuti Mugabe apinda papi but Im saying this because these overzealous war vets are doing this to make Mugabe happy.He is to blame ngaabate imbwa dzake.

  65. Rhodes brought more development than Mugabe and his government did in the past 34 years. Rhodes loved Zimbabwe more than Mugabe did look where he is hoidaying right now. Some may ask kuti Mugabe apinda papi but Im saying this because these overzealous war vets are doing this to make Mugabe happy.He is to blame ngaabate imbwa dzake.

  66. DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THESE ARE GENUINE WAR VETS…WHAT WAR…WHICH WAR ?…THESE ARE JST MUGABE S BORDER GEZI GRADUATES……..THUGS…..AND CRIMINALS IGNORANTLY THRIEVING ON THE IDEOLOGY THAT ZIMBABWE BELONGS TO MUGABE AND ZANU PF……….ALL THE NOISE ABT WAR VET …IS FAKE……THEY ARE NOT REAL WAR VETS

  67. DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THESE ARE GENUINE WAR VETS…WHAT WAR…WHICH WAR ?…THESE ARE JST MUGABE S BORDER GEZI GRADUATES……..THUGS…..AND CRIMINALS IGNORANTLY THRIEVING ON THE IDEOLOGY THAT ZIMBABWE BELONGS TO MUGABE AND ZANU PF……….ALL THE NOISE ABT WAR VET …IS FAKE……THEY ARE NOT REAL WAR VETS

  68. You and that brainwashed ridiculous religious rubbish of the invading white THIEVES.
    It is not surprising that those minds that are brainwashed with the wicked white man’s religious sh!t will be inclined to defend those invading white THIEVES, who desecrate African Ancestral lands with their stinking carcass!

  69. Don’t be obtuse, oh brainwashed one!
    The invading pale devils ARE INDEBTED to Africans!
    Whatever they use AFRICAN LABOR & AFRICAN RESOURCES to erect in Africa IS for Africans to do as they bloody well please.
    The criminal euro INVADED AFRICANS UNPROVOKED & PENNILESS!
    In other words, your ridiculous and racist rhodesian THIEVES OWN NOTHING IN AFRICA!
    NOTHING!

  70. Don’t be obtuse, oh brainwashed one!
    The invading pale devils ARE INDEBTED to Africans!
    Whatever they use AFRICAN LABOR & AFRICAN RESOURCES to erect in Africa IS for Africans to do as they bloody well please.
    The criminal euro INVADED AFRICANS UNPROVOKED & PENNILESS!
    In other words, your ridiculous and racist rhodesian THIEVES OWN NOTHING IN AFRICA!
    NOTHING!

  71. “Rhodes’ Grave Desecrated By War Vets, They Plan To Dump Skeleton In Indian
    Ocean”
    Best news about that site, which is a desecration of African Ancestral lands by the criminal euro invaders.
    Long ago that tomb should have had explosives going off in it.
    However, better late than never.
    Goon on the War Vets.
    With the relentless and racist sanctions of the evil white devils, the Chimurenga HAS TO BE ONGOING.
    So it is good that the War Vets to keep the pressure on … to purify African Ancestral lands of the carcasses of the invading white THIEVES!
    Europe is their proper graveyard!

  72. “Rhodes’ Grave Desecrated By War Vets, They Plan To Dump Skeleton In Indian
    Ocean”
    Best news about that site, which is a desecration of African Ancestral lands by the criminal euro invaders.
    Long ago that tomb should have had explosives going off in it.
    However, better late than never.
    Goon on the War Vets.
    With the relentless and racist sanctions of the evil white devils, the Chimurenga HAS TO BE ONGOING.
    So it is good that the War Vets to keep the pressure on … to purify African Ancestral lands of the carcasses of the invading white THIEVES!
    Europe is their proper graveyard!

  73. If they lob his remains in the ocean they are also throwing away a lucrative business at the bottom of World’s View that was charging $10US to see the old graves! Not sure if the recipients of that cash would be too happy!

  74. If they lob his remains in the ocean they are also throwing away a lucrative business at the bottom of World’s View that was charging $10US to see the old graves! Not sure if the recipients of that cash would be too happy!

  75. Remove all roads, rail, hospitals; schools, Growth points, dams, parks, bridges, gvt institutions, race course, parliament buildings etc built by Rhodesians.

  76. To be fair to some War Vets, some, if not most of their already small brains went away with bullets that whizzed over their heads during contacts with Smith’s soldiers.

  77. To be fair to some War Vets, some, if not most of their already small brains went away with bullets that whizzed over their heads during contacts with Smith’s soldiers.

  78. lts true that some people use their spinal chord to think. A desperate move that wont address the bread and butter issues…..Sorry but l dont have any kind words for these hooligans masquerading as Zim war veterans. This is kak if not sh*****t

  79. These war vets have not known God or seen God. They are behaving like muslims who don’t know what they are doing. If you can’t forgive and forget my Father The Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven will also not forgive you. These war vets should be repenting and asking for forgiveness before The coming of The Great God Jesus Christ. AMEN. Messenger Of God

  80. Ma War vets vaibata chibharo vasikana nguva yehondo . Hapana chavakatibatsira nacho asi kuisa Mugabe pachigaro . I have very little respect for the lot

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