The controversial activist behind the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign at Oxford University has said he “should have whipped” a white student after he was filmed knocking a phone out of the man’s hand with a stick.

A video filmed at the University of Cape Town (UCT) shows Ntokozo Qwabe using the stick to hit the student’s phone as he stands on the top of a desk during a protest in a law class.

In a post on Facebook, he denied that he had “assaulted” the student, but admitted he wishes he had “whipped the white apartheid settler colonial entitlement out of the bastard”.