By BO Staff Writer A highly placed source within the South African Airways (SAA) airline has revealed that the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, will finally fire the Chairperson of the SAA Board, Dudu Myeni, at a board meeting expected to be held today. Gordhan is fed up with Myeni who has been frustrating his plan …
By BO Staff Writer the following pictures were taken from the Black First Land First’s (BLF) #BlacksInDialogue series. The event took place on the February 28 and the topic of discussion was ‘Why ABSA should pay back the stolen R3.2 billion.’ Panelists were BLF National Convenor, Andile Mngxitama, author & Former Director of the South …
By BO Staff Writer President Jacob Zuma will comment on the public protector’s now leaked provisional report “on the Complaint of Mr Paul Hoffman Pertaining to Alleged Maladministration, Corruption, Misappropriation of Public Funds and Failure by the South African Government to Implement CIEX Report and Recover Public Funds from ABSA,” at the end of February …
By BO Staff Writer Last night, Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan responded to Black First Land First’s (BLF) High Court application to declare him “conflicted, compromised and captured by white capital.” Gordhan, who is the first respondent in the matter, submitted a 340 page answering affidavit to the High Court last night at 17h58. In October last …
By BO Staff Writer The Black Consciousness movement, Black First Land First (BLF) says President Jacob Zuma must fire Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, because he serves white monopoly capital. They accuse him of being “pro-rich and pro-white!” In a statement released on Sunday, the movement said the minister was silent on the recent leaked report …
Media Statement Black First Land First (BLF) calls on former President Thabo Mbeki, former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Tito Mboweni to apologize to the nation for failing to protect national assets. The three politicians were entrusted by the nation, by virtue of their positions at …
By Khaya Sithole So I must confess – the first thing I did this morning was buy a copy of the Mail and Guardian – and I haven’t been this excited about buying a newspaper since I got my Matric results. The Public Protector’s report is much better than the State Capture Report and it …
By BO Staff Writer Venezuela is on the brink of another coup by the national bourgeoisie in cahoots with its global wing, Western imperialism, who have just failed to remove President Maduro via a recall referendum that the courts had effectively stopped. To this end, the courts of various states had, through the annulment of …
By James Petras Introduction Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office through a well-organized, carefully planned operation among the corrupt Brazilian political elite, closely linked to the stock-market, financial institutions and foreign energy companies. This ‘legislative coup d’état’ eliminated the democratically-elected ‘political intermediaries’ and installed a regime directly controlled by the CEO’s of leading …
By BO Staff Writer After the Long March, when the Chinese Red Army had arrived in Northern Shensi, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee met in December 1935 to interrogate the various problems regarding tactics against imperialism. Subsequent to this meeting Mao Zedong delivered a report containing an analysis of these problems at the …
