By Andile Mngxitama Beware of White Power. You will find the “woke” doing everything to avoid fighting white supremacy. Whites are in charge – but blacks are so scared of the real oppressor that they do everything to avoid fighting the real enemy. Blacks are elevating all the secondary contradictions. They say, for instance: i. …
By Andile Mngxitama White supremacy/racism/anti-blackness is an oppressive power reality which is a moving target. It’s always on the move; always mutating; always assimilating; always adapting – but NEVER changing its real character. It may even make concessions and compromises. Black people have to develop their Black Consciousness (BC) into a living set of tools …
By Andile Mngxitama Often I underestimate the role of mentors. I find it too elitist. Truth is, I had mentors guiding my understanding of Black Consciousnes (BC). They didn’t call themselves mentors. They were my comrades. But now when I see the mistakes and egoistical over-indulgence of people who come to radical black thought through …
Thomas Sankara. Image credit: Goodread Biography By Andile Mngxitama Our fight against land thieves and white monopoly capital (WMC) is not an excuse to promote looting of the poor so as to sponsor the addiction to the conspicuous consumption of luxury designer brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Range Rover. We subscribe to and …
By BO Staff Writer On 16 June this year, Black First Land First (BLF) President Andile Mngxitama hosted a panel discussion with Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) heavyweights Dr Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape and Prof Itumeleng Mosala on the place of the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising in the history of our struggle. The discussion was an explosion …
Leaders of the June16, 1976 Soweto Uprising, Tsietsi Mashinini and Khotso Seatlholo, in Gaborone (Botwana) in 1977. Image credit: SAHO By Andile Mngxitama Four year ago i wrote: “i know for a fact that Tsietsi Mashinini was murdered at least two weeks before he was due back in SA. i lived with Khotso Seatlholo and …
Khotso Seatlholo (left), Tsietsi Mashinini (right) By Andile Mngxitama Tsietsi Mashinini, the chairperson of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), and his deputy Khotso Seatlholo were members of the South African Students’ Movement (SASM). Both the SSRC and SASM were among the 18 Black Consciousness-affiliated organisations banned on 19 October 1977. After the June 16 …
By Andile Mngxitama Cyril Ramaphosa and the African National Congress (ANC) alliance’s anti-racism campaign is an insult to Steve Biko, George Floyd and Collins Khosa. The campaign is an haphazard affair meant to essentially take our eyes away from the complicity of the Ramaphosa administration in racism. Racism is flourishing under Ramaphosa from the arrogance …
By Andile Mngxitama Fake international solidarity is when you use the memory of Brother George Floyd to divert attention away from the injustices against blacks. Here’s some examples: 1. The bogus anti racism campaign of the African National Congress (ANC). 2. Whites in the United States of America (USA) marching in protest against Floyd’s murder …
Tsietsi Mashinini, leader of June 16, 1976 uprising By Andile Mngxitama It’s June 16 soon. We must once again explain. It was not the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) or African National Congress (ANC) that sparked the great uprising. The June 16, 1976 uprising was in fact the result of the work of Steve Biko’s Black …
