They should also listen to Mr Mugabe. In April, he gave a wry response to the successful campaign to remove a statue of Rhodes from the University of Cape Town. “You may have the statue because that’s where he began,” said Mr Mugabe, addressing South Africans (although he might as well have been referring to Oriel, Rhodes’s alma mata). “We have him down below the Matopos as that’s where he wanted to die.”