By Andile Mngxitama The DA The Democratic Alliance (DA) must be discarded as a right wing white supremacist party of white monopoly capital (WMC) and land thieves. Empirical and theoretical work must be done on this. Black people have to be warned about the DA. Those black political parties making common cause with the DA …
By Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan This article was originally published on the SA History Online website. On the eve of the 1994 elections, Mrs. Phyllis Jordan, wife of AC Jordan and mother of Pallo Jordan, penned a great analysis of what the elections mean in the context of ANC history. Tomorrow, April 26, 1994, an historic event …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was first published in the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: The black majority desire black unity to advance the revolution to end suffering. The enemy is united but black people are divided. A new opportunity to work towards black unity has …
By Andile Mngxitama The post-African National Congress (ANC) lekgotla statement by Cyril Ramaphosa is a distortion of the land expropriation without compensation process. Ramaphosa is playing political football with a matter of life and death. First of all, the impression created that the public hearings on land expropriation are about constitutional democracy is a blatant …
By Ncedisa Mpemnyama “Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!” ― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Today is Mandela Day again. The icon celebrated would have been 100 years old if he were still alive. Ordinarily, the day is used to remember and venerate the icon for his selfless leadership …
By Andile Mngxitama The launch of Dr Makhosi Khoza’s party, African Democratic Change, has officially announced the arrival of fake politics in South Africa. Dr Khoza has brazenly plagiarized a replica of the logo of the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). We are in the copy and paste politics of fake ideologies, proper. These …
By BO Staff Writer Today’s by-election to be held at the Free State Metsimaholo municipality is being seen as a test for 2019. The wounded South African Communist Party (SACP) will, for the first time, contest the ruling party, African National Congress (ANC), in an election. Dr Makhosi Khoza will also test her strength on …
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 …
The following article was published earlier today on the BLF website and is reissued below by Black Opinion. Black First Land First (BLF) will today meet with Siphesihle Jele, Simon Masimula, Sipho Coke and Xolani Nkosi, the victims of racism at the hands of First National Bank (FNB). The four former employees of FNB had …
