I'm at Iziko South African Museum to talk about the entwined human and environmental costs of #colonialism, so it's rather fitting that the museum's gardens are teeming with highly invasive American grey #squirrels, which were introduced to #SouthAfrica by none other than #CecilRhodes. #SPNHC2026

#Leopold initiated the #Congo project with Loans from bankers, including the #Rothschilds (he was millions of francs in the red with them by the mid‑1880s/early 1890s)
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#Euro #Dollars #Organharvest #Congo
#oranis #southafrica #cecilrhodes #Gaza #Palestine