By Andile Mngxitama Did you know that formal apartheid was launched in South Africa (SA) in 1948 and ended in 1994. That’s a life span of 46 years. In that period the Afrikaners completely set themselves up – from agriculture, to banking to, insurance. Do you know that the African National Congress (ANC) has been …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: Yesterday, a delegation of Black First Land First (BLF) national leaders led by our President Andile Mngxitama, held a succeful meeting with the Executive Director of Amnesty International for Southern Africa, …
By BO Staff Writer Last night, the University of Cape Town Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (UCT EFFSC) hosted a talk by the EFF Spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. The spokesperson, affectionately known as ‘People’s Bae’ may have lost his ‘Bae-ness’ after the talk. Ndlozi pushed his way through a cringeworthy talk on postcolonial liberation movements, leaving …
By BO Staff Writer Today, 57 years ago, the leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, woke up at 5 a.m. in his home in Mofolo, Soweto, and got ready for the day of planned nationwide action against pass laws. It is said that from as early as August 1959, “Sobukwe was …
By Kwara Kekana on behalf of BDS South Africa The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization, BDS South Africa, is shocked that South Africa’s Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, participated in a fundraising event on the 21st of September 2016 with the Israel United Appeal-United Communal Fund (IUA-UCF). The IUA-UCF forms part of, and sends …
By BO Staff Writer The Black First Land First (BLF) movement has launched a petition against the public protector Thuli Madonsela, demanding that she finalize and release her report relating to billions of rands stolen by apartheid era leaders, politicians, bankers and arms dealers. The case has been with Madonsela since August 2011. Read the …
Featured Image: Professor Cheryl Potgieter Photo: ukzn.ac.za By BO Staff Writer The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) has been hit by a controversy over the white manager of the festival who tried to censor a film about the apartheid death penalty from screening at the festival’s opening night. Sarah Dawson has resigned in apparent protest …
by Andiswa Flatela. date: 14 April 2016 I am attracted to #BuyBlack campaign advocated by the National Black Solidarity Consumer Boycott (NBSCB) for various reasons, one of which is the ability to use statistics to creatively unlock black people’s imagination to see new possibilities. When Pastor Xola Skosana of the Way of Life Kilombo first …
By BO Staff Writer During October 2015, the top leadership of the ostensible “Marxist-Leninist” parliamentary party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led by its “Commander in Chief” Julius Malema took a tour to London where they met amongst others, ‘Lord’ Robin Renwick. The meeting with Renwick and other representatives of imperialism happened under the secret rule called the “Chatham …
It’s now an established truth that, “(t)he first casualty, when war comes, is truth”. Black Opinion (BO), seeks to go against the lies of white media and strive to speak the forbidden black truth. We are happy to announce this instrument of black opinion to counter the whitewashed news media and analysis. Black Opinion is committed …
