Logo of Patriotic Alliance By BO Staff Writer Hairman Mashaba promotes himself as a no nonsense corruption buster. However, the former DA Johannesburg mayor has been reported to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for stealing the party logo of Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance (PA). The PA’s complaint follows Mashaba’s announcement that he is now turning …
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 …
By Andile Mngxitama My biggest fear is the capacity of anti blackness to assimilate resistance to itself and render it its tool of oppression. That’s why the language of Black First Land First (BLF) is so clear. It can’t be assimilated into oppression, hence we get banned. The knee on George Floyd‘s neck is symbolic …
By Andile Mngxitama They have started with breaking down the singularity of blackness. I have seen posts about LGBTI Lives Matter, Women’s Lives Matter, and Coloured Lives Matter. I’ve seen attempts to shift the burden of responsibility to fellow blacks with insertions of black on black transgressions. I’ve also heard bizarre things like Black Lives …
George Floyd’s protest in Parliament Square, London, UK. June 3, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/@Kokomothegreat George Floyd’s protest in Parliament Square, London, UK. June 3, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/@Kokomothegreat Pope Francis Wednesday called for peace and reconciliation among the people of the United States, following eight straight nights of wide-scale protess. UN Requires Governments to Help …
By BO Staff Writer Millions have taken to the streets in the United States (US) demanding justice for George Floyd and all those killed at the instance of police brutality and state repression. They are saying “Enough is Enough”. They want pDonald Trump to release all arrested protesters and drop all charges now! But the …
By BO Staff Writer Government has postponed the phased reopening of schools from 1 June to 8 June 2020 ostensibly to prepare the schools for learners to return. The postponement doesn’t however address the fact that upon schools reopening next week, the lives of learners and teachers, as well as their families and communities, will …
By Andile Mngxitama Karl Marx was a racist colonialist. Marxism is anti black. Marx and Marxism have NOTHING to offer blacks by way of understanding and organizing for black liberation. The black defenders of Marx aren’t keen to defend ‘die ou baas’ either. Anyway they are killing us not because we are workers; they are …
Collins Khosa By Andile Mngxitama Some of us have been complaining that the brand of feminism coming from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is liberal feminism and its job is to demonize the black man. We have raised our voices when black women joined hands with white …
Black First Land First (BLF) condemns the racist murder of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by the Minneapolis Police Department. We salute the righteous indignation and resistance of the thousands of Minneapolis people who are demanding justice for George Floyd in the face of violent state repression through paramilitary police brutality. The state-sanctioned killing …
