By Andile Mngxitama “When you walk into a fight between a black and a white person, you don’t ask questions; you help the black to defeat the white and ask questions after the fight” – this is BC101. It is one of the most important principles of Black Consciousness (BC). But we need to operationalize it into …
By Andile Mngxitama I have noticed that the children of Mahatma Gandhi (Indians who hate Africans) and the children of Hendrik Verwoerd (ypepo), all support the death penalty and all hate President Zuma. They are irritating. In their minds the death penalty will kill Africans because it’s Africans who are criminals. Never forget what Ghandi …
By Andile Mngxitama Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC) loves FW de Klerk; the Reds of London give Helen Zille political power – same WhatsApp group. This is the disgraceful politics of the Freedom Charter – it creates the Stockholm syndrome (love and empathy for your tormentors). Was Thandi Modise not brutalized by the apartheid regime …
By Andile Mngxitama Black First Land First (BLF) dramatises a Black Consciousness critique of the anti blackness of the South African socio, economic and political reality that was inherited in 1994 and has not changed fundamentally. You can’t fully understand the black positionality in South Africa (SA) today without understanding what BLF is in the …
lmage credit: Facebook Page of Andile Mngxi By BO Staff Writer The Black Agenda of Black First Land First (BLF) says this about the strategic objective of the radical black consciousness organization: “Our objective is to take power and usher in a black first socialist system capable of responding to the total needs of blacks …
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. Gallo Images By Andile Mngxitama Exactly 46 years ago today in Botswana, a bomb went off and took the life of our hero and brother Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. The bomb was sent by the apartheid government on behalf of the white community as a whole. Tiro like Steve Biko was a liberation …
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. Image credit: SAHO By Andile Mngxitama I think of Tiro as a brother of Steve Biko. Tiro and Biko, Brothers in Black Consciousness (BC). These guys rhythm as one. I read how Tiro got impatient with the Keith Mokoape group. After their resolution was defeated by Biko’s powerful intervention, the Keith group …
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 …
