Rhodes Must Fall a defining moment in SA history By Opinion Wandile Kasibe It was during his visit to UCT on June 6, 1966, that former US attorney-general Robert Kennedy uttered these words: âEach time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.â And 49 years later these compelling words found expression in Chumani Maxweleâs institutional critique against the glorification of white supremacy embodied through the presence of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes and other colonial and apartheid symbols on UCTâs upper campus.