By Andile Mngxitama I’m an entry level Black Consciousness (BC) educator. I only improve techniques with time but my message for the last 20 years has been the same. I repeat myself all the time because I’m always engaging entry level participants. That’s what good teachers do, more so BC teachers. They repeat themselves until …
By Andile Mngxitama I like how some African National Congress (ANC) comrades honestly think that this whole thing of blackism is a bit of a joke or madness. The Mazzotti boys think that black consciousness (BC) is dirt. So they talk to me like I’m some oddity; like I’m some mad family member. They say, …
By Andile Mngxitama Steve Biko systematized black radical thought in South Africa (SA) into Black Consciousness (BC). Like most thinkers Biko didn’t invent the ideas that he had called BC, he merely systematized them. Lots of people who resist giving Biko his place as supreme thinker on the black condition have no problem granting Karl …
By Andile Mngxitama “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” ― Adyashanti In this year of Awakening and Organizing, we are …
Image credit: African News Agency (ANA) By Andile Mngxitama The EFF leadership are now destroying some really principled comrades. Firstly, we know that Comrade (Cde) Mandisa Makesini can’t write anything, including a report. Now the Mazzotti boys are forcing Cde Piaba Madokwe to lie and contradict herself because of her previous proximity to us organisationally. …
Photo credit: Elizabeth Sejake By BO Staff Writer According to Black First Land First (BLF) President Andile Mngxitama the article “Each generation must choose its mission”, which was published yesterday on the website of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) under the name of Mandisa Makesini, was actually written by Floyd Shivambu. “Floyd Shivambu must stop …
By BO Staff Writer The “Marxist-Leninist-Fanonist” ideological perspective has long been clarified for the purpose of uniformity of thought and clarity of vision by its founder the erstwhile Commissar for Land and Agrarian Revolution of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Andile Mngxitama, who is the current President of the black consciousness organization Black First Land …
By Molaodi Wa Sekake In 2013, me and my comrade, my classmate, my confidante, Phezukonke Mthethwa, established an organisation at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Howard College campus, called Society of Commons. This was meant to organise young, particularly Black working class, students to collectively reflect on their conditions. Over and above our ideas as …
By BO Staff Writer In the matter of Freedom Front Plus versus Electoral Commission of SA & Black First Land First (BLF), (held in the Electoral Commission of SA, sitting in the High Court of Jhb, under Application No, 001/19), the order that the Freedom Front Plus (Applicant) sought included a declaratory that the decision …
By Botsang Modimo-wame Moiloa Who on earth is Daniel Friedman? The article “Mngxitama mouthpiece publishes column claiming ‘Maimane is not a black person’”, published in the Citizen on Saturday, indicates serious irresponsibility and lack of professionalism on the part of the reporter, Daniel Friedman. This reportage lacks accuracy and fairness in many respects. Moreover, …
