Photo credit: TimesLIVE The news that young Enoch Mpianzi was put on a self made raft and left into a natural stream or river without a life jacket, during an orientation program in Brits, is shocking beyond belief. If this is true then it’s nothing short of gross negligence which invokes the historical race question. …
Photo credit: BizNews By BO Staff Writer Gwede Mantashe is clear. He wants to lead Eskom. He wants the power utility to be placed in his Department of Mineral Resources and Energy and to ultimately report to him. The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting this weekend is set to decide on …
Image credit: This Is Africa By BO Staff Writer “African unity and solidarity are no longer dreams. They must be expressed in decisions” – Patrice Lumumba Full honors to Patrice Lumumba who was assassinated by U.S. and Belgium backed counter-revolutionary forces on January 17, 1961. Lumumba led the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to attaining …
By Andile Mngxitama Never forget: 1. The total land mass of South Africa (SA) is 120 million hectares 2. There are 58 million people in SA 3. Only 35 000 whites own 80% of the land. 4. Only about 8% of the land has been bought since 1994. We spent more than R50 billion buying …
By Andile Mngxitama The Zuma/Gupta vs white monopoly capital (WMC)/CR17 antagonism is the contemporary manifestation of the historical unresolved battle between native and settler in occupied Azania. This battle does take different forms at given junctures without alteration of its essence as essentially a battle for national liberation. If the Zuma/Gupta axis of the antagonism …
Image Credit: Nomvula Mabuza FaceBook page By BO Staff Writer A company belonging to a relative of Jabu Mabuza, the former Eskom board chair, is currently in the final bidding process regarding a boiler tube maintenance contract for R11 billion with Eskom. To this end a possible conflict of interest situation was raised at Eskom …
Gayton McKenzie. Image credit: Tracy Lee Stark By BO Staff Writer One of the most embarrassing defeats of the African National Congress (ANC) was the loss of the strategic Metropolitan City of Joburg (COJ) to the racist Democratic Alliance (DA). So, how did the ANC regain the city? New information suggests that it was the …
Photo credit: Lefty Shivambu / Gallo Images By Andile Mngxitama My beloved brother Pitso Mosimane can’t have it both ways. He is correct to launch a decolonial assault on the two Germans. But he can’t turn around and disrespect the indigenous forms of play. Is my brother looking down upon such great inventions such as …
By BO Staff Writer Black First Land First (BLF) President, Andile Mngxitama, took to FaceBook yesterday to illustrate through a series of images of the logo of the African National Congress (ANC), the “metamorphosis” of the ruling party to whiteness. The Facebook story, reposted here, speaks for itself.
Image credit: MyCampusMag By Andile Mngxitama Julius Malema is a shrewd and brutal businessman. He behaves like a true capitalist whose only consideration is the profit margin. In this quest for accumulation, no consideration for the well-being of others is entertained. This is how capital reproduces itself and ensures profits. Karl Marx, who Malema ostensibly …
