The Rhodes Colossus

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• The updated history section shifts focus from attribution to the artist to the origin and spread of the 'Rhodes Colossus' pun in South Africa and Britain.

Replace “The Rhodes Colossus was drawn by the English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne.” with “The Rhodes as Colossus pun used in this artwork was a well known joke that originated in South Africa The first newspaper to print the pun was The Lantern a comic weekly in Cape Town in the aftermath of Rhodes short tenure as Treasurer General of Cape Colony in 1884 By the time The Rhodes Colossus was published the pun had circulated widely in Britain's.”.

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