Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, delivers his budget speech in parliament yesterday. Image: GCIS The budget speech delivered by the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, I s nothing short of a direct attack on the poor and a brake on national reconstruction. Mboweni gave nuts and bolts to the pro Stellenbosch State of the Nation Address …
By Andile Mngxitama It’s a stupid question. No one has done anything for black people. We are all still oppressed. And there is no messiah coming to help blacks. Black people come to Black First Land First (BLF) with many problems. We do what we can, but we often can’t help them because we have …
By Andile Mngxitama It’s Monday just after 11am. I’m meeting some brothers who are fighting a monopoly in the tow truck industry. We are at Wimpy at the East Rand Mall. Three loud bangs go off. People scatter and scurry in all directions. It’s so loud and so rapid I think it must be an …
Image credit: The South African By Andile Mngxitama It is exactly 21h30. I promised to come live on Facebook at this time and speak to you about electricity and to answer the big question: is free electricity possible? This is really in response to those who have been attacking the people of Soweto saying that they …
By Andile Mngxitama No country gives free electricity in the world: WRONG! Turkmenistan gives free electricity to its people. Its citizens have been receiving government-provided electricity, water and natural gas free of charge, since 1993. I’m not counting Libya under Muammar Gaddafi. The City of Delhi in India has also started this process. We are …
By Andile Mngxitama In war you need strategic inflexibility and tactical flexibility, or you are going to shoot yourself in the foot. In my previous status update today, (“Did you know that Derek Hanekom betrayed Nelson Mandela?”), I make a tactical move to help us fight against a clear and present danger – Derek Hanekom. …
Derek Hanekom. Gallo Images By Andile Mngxitama Madiba appointed Derek Hanekom as Minister of Land Affairs and gave him a clear mandate to return 30% of the land to blacks in five years (1994 to 1999). Hanekom did none of the things he was appointed for. He instead hired all his white friends into senior …
Duduzane Zuma. Photo: The South African By Andile Mngxitama ANC people you call this white man your leader? Please can you explain this rubbish? It’s the same Derek Hanekom who stood in front of over 2000 ANC delegates and told them that Land Expropriation Without Compensation (LEWC) is a bullshit idea. The same blacks then …
By Andile Mngxitama “When you walk into a fight between a black and a white person, you don’t ask questions; you help the black to defeat the white and ask questions after the fight” – this is BC101. It is one of the most important principles of Black Consciousness (BC). But we need to operationalize it into …
Tshwane China Mall By Andile Mngxitama South Africa (SA) is the only country on earth which allows foreigners (Chinese in particular) to come and build Malls in the country. We are a joke. Right now in Soweto the Chinese are building a ‘China Mall’ and aren’t employing people from Soweto. And some very “clever blacks” …
