By Andile Mngxitama There is a growing misrepresentation of political power as something not important. This is a mistake that must be quickly addressed. The notion that economics trumps politics is simply wrong and must be dispensed with. Truth is, there is no economic freedom without political freedom that takes itself seriously enough to command …
By Andile Mngxitama We blacks have nothing and often because we have nothing we end up lost in the world. Anyone of us can hit rock bottom. I have seen it happen too many times. Others bounce back deeply wounded and if you know it you can feel the vulnerability. The black youth are most …
By Andile Mngxitama On my right is my childhood friend. We went to high school together, chased white teachers from our school and appointed the first Black Principal of Tlokwe Secondary State School. Mr Khumalo is still alive and can tell you the full story of how we decolonised our school (an amazing story still …
BLF President Andile Mngxitama, spoke recently to a group of ANC RET comrades on the issue of Radical Economic Transformation. The following is an extract from that engagement. You need a government to implement RET in full. Comrades RET is a political program. It can only be implemented in full by a government. Let’s start …
BY BO Staff Writer “The ANC is very strange because the Communist Party initially was supposed to play this radicalising role but the Communist Party is the right wing of the ANC. So you have therefore no left agent that is pushing the ANC to the Black Agenda and to the left direction. So we …
BY BO Staff Writer “RET people inside the ANC, what is the tactical move with regards to elections given that the last time you gave or they gave political power to the ANC which is captured by the enemy” BLF President Andile Mngxitama, speaking recently to a group of ANC RET comrades, engages on the …
BY BO Staff Writer “It is a minimum program that assists to sharpen the question of who the enemy is, which is white monopoly capital, and then make demands which unite us to organise the resistance against white monopoly capital.” BLF President Andile Mngxitama, speaking recently to a group of ANC RET comrades, unpacks what …
BY BO Staff Writer “Some of you will remember that in 2016 Black First Land First started a campaign where we said “Hands Off President Zuma Economic Liberation Now”… If you look at the demands we were making, those demands subsequently became demands that formalised into Radical Economic Transformation”. BLF President Andile Mngxitama, speaking by …
Black First Land First (BLF) calls on the Minister of Police, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, and the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to bring back Phadima Fukula. The police have allegedly disappeared Mr Fukula, apartheid hit-squad like, in what seems like a massive cover-up of corruption. Fukula has allegedly proffered …
By Andile Mngxitama You give your votes to the wrong people, they will serve wrong interests. Truth is, without support: 1. The banks are weak. 2. Johann Rupert is weak. 3. The Oppenheimers are weak. 4. Farmers are weak. They are powerful because the government of the ANC and the DA and EFF you vote …
