By Sandile Memela We writers and journalists rule the society. We are powerful beyond measure. Everything that the ordinary white folk and educated blacks know comes from us. We shape and influence the perception and control their thinking. Over the last 23 years we have refined the art of black bashing. It has become an …
By BO Staff Writer In a shocking admiration of whiteness, Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomed the victory of a white Miss Universe, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, representing South Africa. Nel-Peters won the Miss South Africa beauty pageant and then went on to represent the country at the Miss Universe competition. The competition, which generally supports …
By BO Staff Writer The following article was previously published on the BLF website on 14 September 2017 and is now reissued by Black Opinion: Black First Land First (BLF) supports the legitimate demands of the artisanal miners (Zama Zamas) – being members of the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) and Kimberley Artisanal …
By BO Staff Writer The following article was previously published on the BLF website on 15 September 2017 and is now reissued by Black Opinion: Yesterday, 14 September at 16:30 the Black First Land First (BLF) National Secretary for Political Education and Research Neo Mokatsanyane was scheduled to do an interview on ENCA’s Back Chat. …
By Athi Mongezeleli Joja Today, the 12th of September, marks the day the philosopher and leader of the South African chapter of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko, died at the hands of the apartheid police apparatus. Already, messages and commemorations have been filling social media and other outlets, with open declaratory gestures remembering and …
By Andile Mngxitama This is the text of the keynote address delivered by Andile Mngxitama on 08 March 2017 in Durban at the launch of the Black Business Campaign of the National Funeral Practitioners Association of South Africa.
By Yerushka Chetty Comrades please allow me to share my reflections today with you. Reactions to the corrupt ANC are natural and necessary. From 2010 (when I was first introduced to the September National Imbizo (SNI)), Andile Mngxitama was exposing the ANC for what we know it to be today. Personally, for me it’s been …
By Athi Mongezeleli Joja The emergence of the discourse on “decolonisation” from within local struggles has engulfed South Africa. As if scrambling for a new figure to fill in a void, political parties, prestigious institutions and so on, undertook pilgrimages to the grave of Steve Biko, writing papers, holding conferences, and others, holding massive rallies …
By BO Staff Writer The Black Thought Symposium is a collective of young, black musicians, writers, academics who come together to curate, discuss and think through questions of Black (non)existence, lived reality and ways in which the arts can aid in thinking critically. The collective was originally launched at Wits University in 2014, and has …
By Rachel Aviv This story was originally published on the New Yorker magazine website. Albert Woodfox was one of three of the Angola 3, he was in solitary confinement longer than any American in history. Last summer, five months after being released from prison, Albert Woodfox went to Harlem. It was there, in 1969, during …
