Bid to dig up Rhodes

25 March 2015 - 02:22
By Nhlalo Ndaba,Shanaaz Eggington and Kingdom Mabuza

Zimbabwean youths were stopped yesterday from digging up the remains of Cecil Rhodes from his grave in the Matopos Hills, just outside Bulawayo. The Zanu-PF youths assembled at the party's Bulawayo offices, from which they intended to go to the hills. They apparently planned to exhume Rhodes's remains so they could be repatriated to Britain.

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