Mr. McKaiser studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, starting in 1997, earning a bachelor’s degree in law and philosophy, then a master’s in philosophy, before winning a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford in 2003. The scholarships were founded by the British arch-colonialist Cecil John Rhodes at his death in 1902.
Mr. McKaiser later backed the campaign to remove statues of Rhodes at the universities of Cape Town and Oxford, and called for a broader effort to change the…