It's a sacred hill where for centuries Zimbabweans would go to consult their ancestors. It's also where the notorious British coloniser Cecil John Rhodes chose to be his final resting place.
Cecil John Rhodes named the present day Zimbabwe, after himself and called it Rhodesia in 1895MATOBO - It's a sacred hill where for centuries Zimbabweans would go to consult their ancestors.
But the grave attracts tourists who bring much-needed income for surrounding villages -- and many local people oppose any exhumation. From the hilltop, visitors gaze at the vast expanse of trees around, where antelopes and warthogs roam.In neighbouring South Africa, students at the University of Cape Town launched a"Rhodes-Must-Fall" protest in 2015, initially to pull down Rhodes's statue at the campus.
Zimbabwe's ex-strongman Robert Mugabe, who took the reins from independence from Britain in 1980, saw no reason to remove Rhodes's remains. "Matobo is such a beautiful landscape, it doesn't need this colonial grave," to attract foreign visitors, she stressed.
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