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 …
By BO Staff Writer Today,the father of the Black Consiousness (BC) movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, would have been 70 years old had he not been murdered. We republish this statement released by the BC movement, Black First Land First (BLF), last year. On this 69th anniversary of Steve Biko’s birth BLF finds it …
In honour of the revolutionary contributions of Queen Nzinga who died 353 years ago Black Opinion is reissuing the following statement published on the Black First Land First blog on 17 December 2015. December 17, 1663 is the death date of Queen Nzinga (Nzinga Mbande). On this 352nd anniversary of her death BLF takes the …
By Mandla Mbuyisa The KwaZulu-Natal provincial convenor of the Black First Land First (BLF) movement Thobani Zikalala usually says, “People are not obliged to comment on everything”, and today I dedicate these words to Malesela Steve Lebelo. In the South African politics, recycling has become a norm – where people take serious platforms and say …
By BO Staff Writer Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born on December 5, 1924 – it is today 92 years since his birth. On a day like this we are always compelled to reflect on how best we should honor his legacy. BLF National Convener, Andile Mngxitama, has pointed out elsewhere that a striking contribution of Sobukwe was …
By BO Staff Writer As the SRC election hots up in the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), there has been provocation against the Black First Land First Student Movement (BLF-SM) on campus. Both the EFF Student Command and ANC-aligned SASCO are in a panic mode and have resorted to tearing down BLF-SM posters, taking pamphlets …
