‘Racist Gandhi must fall’.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: A man has been ordered to appear in South African court after he was caught covering a statue of Mahatma Gandhi located in the center of Johannesburg with white paint.
The suspect, 21-year-old Molese Maile, was part of a group who demonstrated near the statue on Saturday with placards reading: “Racist Gandhi must fall.”
The next day the group returned in a car and threw buckets of white paint on the statue and surrounding plaques detailing Gandhi’s history in South Africa, security guard Ntandzo Khwepe was quoted as saying, by the Press Trust of India.
Khwepe said the man was apprehended as the rest of the group fled, but he remained nonchalant about his arrest, claiming that his political bosses would soon get him free.
The group of protestors wore caps with the governing African National Congress (ANC) emblazoned on them, but the party has distanced itself from the incident and condemned the defacing.
Police spokesman Kay Makhubela told the BBC the man was arrested while in the act of whitewashing the statue, while PTI reported he will be charged with malicious damage to property.
The leader of the Indian independence movement, Gandhi is widely regarded as a man who steadfastly stood for peace, but some South Africans have accused him of working with the British colonial government to promote racial segregation. Gandhi lived in South Africa for 20 years and diligently campaigned for the rights of Indian people there.
The particular statue that was vandalized — which is one of a number of monuments to Gandhi across South Africa — is believed to be the only one in the world showing Gandhi as a young lawyer in his court robes.
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