By Yonela Diko Black Opinion is republishing the following article by Yonela Diko that was previously published on the Independent Online (IOL) website on 28 July 2017 Cape Town – On June 16, 2008 Julius Malema political career was officially launched on the public stage when he told the country the ANC Youth league would …
By Matabz South Africa is at a crucial point in history, a point characterized by fierce contestation of black nationalist ideas versus white liberal and so-called white radical ideas that continue to dominantly shape the contours of the South Africa political and ideological landscape. This contestation is nothing historically new to the broader trajectory of …
By Magedi Jonas Cde Tito, Thanks for the input and a very informative post. Let’s take the opportunity to open the curtain for you as you seem too attached to your London bed and not willing to see, from the outside, the glorious light of revolution coming. We are fighting for total independence of our …
Dear Mr. Manuel We read with interest your new conviction that our claim of white monopoly capital is a fallacy, invented by a public relations company named Bell Pottinger, as you recently said at the Nelson Mandela Foundation event you attended. We as the leadership of the MK Inkuleleko Foundation pen this letter as representing …
A Facebook post by Ralph Slade We need to think deep, very deep and check all the directions. It can’t be that all the wrongs in South Africa (SA) are to be blamed on Zuma, Zuma, Zuma, ANC, ANC, ANC! Here’s another voice – Eugene van Wyk – from those of us who were born …
By Yerushka Chetty “Dear all just remember, President Zuma started a chess club in Robben Island. When others were reading Hegel, he was perfecting his chess moves” Andile Mngxitama, President of Black First Land First 1. On agitation and propaganda There is no way in contemporary times that one can go to war without first …
By Yerushka Chetty All important decisions relating to governing South Africa (S.A.) to exploit our labour as well as our mineral and natural resources, take place in London under the guise of #LondonRoadShows. This is evident from the fact that all of our politicians are called to London just before important political and economic decisions …
By BO Staff Writer Sources close to the leadership of the Democratic Alliance (DA) claim that the leader of the opposition party has been summoned to London by Lord Robin Renwick. This follows the tension in the party after the racist comments by the party’s effective leader, Helen Zille. Maimane has been put under pressure …
By Lufuno Gogoro It is undeniable that Frantz Fanon identifies European, or “white” culture as racist to the core. It is equally undeniable that he affirmed the likelihood of the discourses of knowledge emanating from this culture being equally racist. It stands to reason that a culture, which regards itself as being superior to all …
By Thobani Zikalala I send revolutionary greetings to all. I, like many of you, am a child of the dispossessed masses of Black people in Occupied Azania – the so called “rainbow nation” South Africa! As such, I feel obliged to write this letter to you today, which will be made permanent not with the …
