By Andile Mngxitama When South Africa (SA) recorded the first case of COVID-19 infection on 5th March, Cyril Ramaphosa didn’t do what was necessary to isolate, monitor, track, and defeat the virus. And when by 15 March there were 61 cases of infections recorded, Ramaphosa didn’t see it fit to shut the country down immediately, …
President Nicolas Maduro. Image credit: venezuelanalysis By Andile Mngxitama Black First Land First (BLF) asked Cyril Ramaphosa to suspend rentals and bond payments amongst other things but Stellenbosch won’t allow him to do so. Remember they bought him with R1 billion at the African National Congress (ANC) Nasrec Conference. He owes them. They made him …
By Andile Mngxitama What the government, in cahoots with white monopoly capital (WMC), has done is calculated to instigate a national panic to make profits. Maximum infections have been deliberately allowed to take hold since President Ramaphosa announced a “national lockdown” on Monday of 21 days to begin at midnight on 26 March. The announcement …
By Andile Mngxitama If I have R100 and I give you one rand, it’s fokol, right? Let’s stop behaving like drunks after being given a total of R2 Billion from the collective wealth of over R207 Billion of the Oppenheimers and the Ruperts. Let’s get up from our knees. It’s pathetic. Last year alone, after …
Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland March 15, 2020 Covid-19 hastens the deepening structural crisis of the capitalist system The CPI expresses its solidarity with all those affected, and who will be affected, by this growing health crisis, and to the health staff and emergency services in the front line. The health services throughout …
By Andile Mngxitama Do you know that the South African government’s R13.85 billion package to deal with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic is: i. just 7.5% of the wealth of Johann Rupert who is worth R103.4-billion? ii. just 7.4% of the wealth of Nicky Oppenheimer who is worth R102.98-billion? iii. less than the …
By Andile Mngxitama The Oppenheimers/Ruperts, through their agent Cyril Ramaphosa, have won a major propaganda battle (not the war) via the coronavirus pandemic. The R2 billion donation made by these families ostensibly towards easing the impact of the pandemic on the people, (as announced by Ramaphosa last night) is a huge victory for white monopoly …
BY Andile Mngxitama Just a reminder, the wealth of the Ruperts and Oppenheimers hovers around R100 billion for each family. More specifically Johann Rupert is worth R103.4-billion and Nicky Oppenheimer, R102.98-billion In the last financial year, being the year after removing Jacob Zuma as President, Rupert made R11 billion and the Oppenheimers made R6 billion …
Johann Rupert and Nicky Oppenheimer By Andile Mngxitama Since the formation of Black First Land First (BLF) our main task is “to make visible, the invisible hand of white monopoly capital (WMC)” because WMC is the primary enemy. This task means making our people understand that families like the Oppenheimers and the Ruperts are the …
By Andile Mngxitama A less than two months lockdown of the nation is a joke. But to work, a lockdown must first and foremost abandon the “herd immunity” policy of the United Kingdom (UK) and look to Cuba and China for a way forward. In the letter Black First Land First (BLF) sent to President …
