BO Staff Writer Radical black consciousness movement, Black First Land First (BLF), has come out in defence of Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, after African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe, dismissed Mugabe’s comments about the ANC selling out its people during the 1994 negotiations. Mugabe has on numerous occasions told his Zanu-PF party supporters …
By BO Staff Writer The media has been quiet about how their darling London-controlled Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema has lost a shocking 3% of the vote in an important by-election in Johannesburg recently. Ward 124 was won by the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). The EFF share of the vote …
By BO Staff Writer Knocking its critics to the ground, the African National Congress (ANC) won three out of five by-elections held in the Western Cape, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Free State. The ANC unseated the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Bergrivier, Western Cape and retained a ward in Ngqushwa, Eastern Cape, with over 80% votes. …
By BO Staff Writer The African National Congress (ANC) and the African Independent Congress (AIC) have concluded talks and adopted a memorandum of understanding on their coalition partnership, which they had entered into after last year’s local government elections. The two parties went into coalition in the Ekurhuleni, Rustenburg, Umkhanyakude and “other municipalities where both …
By BO Staff Writer Black Opinion brings you the first instalment of its podcast, Black Analysis. In this short podcast “Black Opinion’s Black Weekly News Analysis” we hope to be speaking about stories from the previous week and analysing from our Black Opinion perspective. Last week was the first week of New Year and the …
By BO Staff Writer The Black First Land First (BLF) movement says it will “critically engage ordinary members of the [African National Congress] ANC” at the party’s January 8 statement on Sunday. The January 8 statement marks the anniversary of the founding of the ANC on January 8, 1912. In a statement released this morning, …
Media Statement The following media statement was issued by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) Johannesburg Region. COSAS is an ANC affiliated student oorganisation. As COSAS [Congress of South African Students] in Greater Johannesburg we would like to advice ANC [African National Congress] leaders to stay away from VIP sections at the January 8 …
By BO Staff Writer Senior leaders and Members of Parliament of the African National Congress (ANC) were shocked to discover a plan to illegally remove President Jacob Zuma this Thursday, 10 November 2016. The coup was planned along the same modus operandi as the one carried out against the democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff of …
Featured Image: The De Waal Drive flats in Cape Town. Photo: David Harrison/M&G By BO Staff Writer On Saturday June 11 the residents of Woodstock and Salt River held a meeting under the campaign, “We Are Not Going Anywhere” to engage, discuss and consolidate ideas in response to the evictions they face from their homes …
by BO staff writer Late last year in Oxford University, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema unexpectedly unleashed a blistering criticism of two of Africa’s icons, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the late Nelson Mandela of South African. The attack on Mugabe has been explained by the fact that the EFF …
