Wreckers near home

SIR — Franny Rabkin appears to have forgotten Pastor Martin Niemoller’s “First they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist … then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.” She “didn’t care much” when the University of Cape Town (UCT) paintings were burnt and was “jubilant” when the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was pulled down, but when the wreckers came nearer home, to the law library, she was “heartbroken”.

A painting or two and a sculpture is fine, but don’t come to my door.

Incidentally, I believe that UCT students get two bites at the Rhodes Scholarships, as one is dedicated to that university.

Perhaps UCT should refuse the scholarship as well as the statue.