Image: Cyril Ramaphosa By Andile Mngxitama Whatever your views of the ANC are, like that of the violent bad service taxi industry, the ANC is a black created project. The ANC is an institution created by blacks over 100 years ago. Yes of course in 1955 whites captured its soul with the Freedom Charter. But …
By BO Staff Writer This year marks the 46th anniversary of the June 16 uprising. Andile Mngxitama once again explains it was not the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) or African National Congress (ANC) that sparked the event, that the great uprising was actually the result of Steve Biko’s revolutionary work. Here’s a short incisive historical …
Photo: Brian Molefe, former Eskom CEO Andile Mngxitama Brian Molefe is criminalised for standing up against the corrupt Glencore. The criminal organisation wanted to increase the price of coal from the long term agreed R150 per ton to R500. Brian refused, then Glencore threatened national blackout. From this threat Brian worked with the Guptas to …
Andile Mngxitama Black people want wealth through “magical” ways. We fear the white man who has our land and wealth. We pray on the weak. In Mpumalanga at Hazyview 5 children have been murdered and their body parts sold to a Sangoma. These barbaric dark acts must stop. Money is in white hands. No amount …
Andile Mngxitama Every five years or so the university system responding to racism throws up a layer of articulate leaders. We saw this with the first generation post apartheid SASCO leaders. Even BCM student leaders like Sipho Maseko monetarised their student leadership credentials into becoming captains of industry. We saw the Rhodes Must Fall/Fees Must …
Andile Mngxitama We all must have seen the video of the creche teacher viciously assaulting a toddler. It’s possible the abuser is a mother with her own children. The circle is thus: The whiteman hits the black man on the head. The black man hits other black men and black women on their heads. The …
UKZN campus. Image: Sunday Times Sowetan (March 23 2022), “UKZN graduation an African celebration against British bondage” by Dr Pedro Mzileni refers. In his piece, Mizileni makes a case for the celebration of the colourful University of KwaZulu-Natal graduation ceremony as an instant of decolonisation. He correctly criticises those who have issue with these jamborees …
Image: BLF President, Andile Mngxitama By Andile Mngxitama “The rebel’s weapon is the proof of his humanity. For in the first days of the revolt you must kill: to shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there …
Atul, Rajesh and Ajay Gupta. Credit: Getty Images By Andile Mngxitama One day I shall write a book on the rise and fall of the Guptas, their correct place in our war against white monopoly capital, their influence in running SOEs and compare the performances of these SOEs under their influence and now. Black business …
Image: Screenshot of image from YouTube video By Andile Mngxitama The UKZN graduation zulu dance motif is just that, a permitted performance of the native in a colonial setting. They allow us the dance, an ululation on grad day, and it’s back to the colony. It reminds me of the racist Afrikaner town Boksburg, once …