The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain.

It is a memorial to the English-born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902), was designed by architect Herbert Baker and finished in 1912.

Rhodes was a mining magnate, founder of the monopolistic De Beers diamond company, influential politician and later prime minister (1890 to 1896) of the British Cape Colony, today a part of the state of South Africa.

The view facing north-east can be imagined as the start of the Cape to Cairo Railway and Rhodes's dream of a "red line" of British dominions spanning the continents north to its south.

[citation needed] Rhodes owned vast areas of the lower slopes of adjacent Table Mountain, most of which he gave to the nation on his death.

It consists of a massive staircase with 49 steps (one for each year of Rhodes's life) leading from a semi-circular terrace up to a rectangular U-shaped monument formed of pillars.

A memorial proposed by the British official (Colonial Secretary) Earl Grey never materialised: a massive statue inspired by the historical antique "colossus of Rhodes" on the island of Rhodes, Greece which was meant to overlook Cape Town from the summit of Lion's Head, similar to the large statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

A statue of Rhodes was situated on the UCT campus, on the lower part of Sarah Baartman Hall steps overlooking the university's rugby fields.

Another view on the matter is that, due to the impact the colonialism has had on forming the inequal society that is South Africa today, this kind of memorial is inappropriate.

Another point of view in this debate accepts the problematic signal that this kind of monument holds but argues that keeping them in the public light is preferable so that they can be critically interrogated on a regular basis.

Currently there are efforts to transform the society of South Africa to make up for some of the inequal politics that the apartheid regime and colonialism has inflicted upon the country, like the land reform.