By BO Staff Writer As the SRC election hots up in the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), there has been provocation against the Black First Land First Student Movement (BLF-SM) on campus. Both the EFF Student Command and ANC-aligned SASCO are in a panic mode and have resorted to tearing down BLF-SM posters, taking pamphlets …
By Thobani Zikalala “Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. … When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe” – Frantz Fanon In 2015, the greater student population of this country made the call …
By Zama Khumalo For me it came all of a sudden that Pastor Xola Skosana said this thing that he said and I read it but I didn’t honestly get what the pastor was saying concerning the #HandsOffZumaCampaign. It appears he doesn’t like the campaign because he says the person being protected is a rapist …
Since the inception of the Black First Land First Student Movement (BLF-SM), we have maintained the clear call for Free Black Centered Socialist Education. This call is rooted in the liberation of black people and the total crushing of the anti-black system that maintains black oppression. We want decolonised education in a decolonised society, not …
By Lwazi Lushaba Below is an open letter written by Dr Lwazi Lushaba to Professor Anthony Butler: HOD Politics Department, where he teaches at the University of Cape Town. In the afternoon of the 24th August 2016, the HoD of Politics at UCT addressed to me a letter, whose contents we shall in a moment …
By Sethakgi MaComms Kgomo In a democratic country where the Rule of Law and the Supremacy of the Constitution loom large and supreme, one would reasonably expect institutions created to promote and protect a constitutional democracy to have an equal “pulse” and enjoy the same respect from all and sundry. It is not long ago …
By BO Staff Writer President Jacob Zuma has put his foot down on higher education fee increases and to this end has instructed both Dr Blande Nzimande (Minister of Higher Education and Training) and Pravin Gordhan (Minister of Finance) to freeze any fee increase for another year. Last year the government was forced by militant …
By Cossette Hampton It is refreshing as a Black American woman, stolen from the Motherland generations ago to die in slavery for white power, to experience Women’s Day on the continent. The war on Blackness in South Africa, however, feels all too familiar as I watch from the Cape as my brothers and sisters are …
By Thobeka Nkabinde Higher education institutions in South Africa have been faced with students resisting against the eurocentric, anti-black, patriarchal, heteronormative, classist, able-bodied authoritative order in the fight to bring about a free, Black-centered Azania. Higher learning institutions play a pivotal role in constructing black minds into minds that will sustain the neo-colonial system. The …
By Mischka Lewis From the first days at Stellenbosch University(US), I knew I wanted to make a difference. My first year experience at US was challenging as I struggled to adapt to my new surroundings. I struggled with the urge to practice freedom of thought and think independently. The lecture halls became a place of …
