By Andile Mngxitama I was born on a white-owned farm. I was raised on white-owned farms. I went to farm schools for my primary schooling (Letjhabile Primary School and Terra Peccana Primary School). My parents were farm workers. They, like all other adults I knew growing up, lived to make the lives of the white …
By Andile Mngxitama Notes on land expropriation without compensation UNISA 30th April 2018 Program director, comrades and friends. I thank you Prof Senokoane for the invitation to this important discussion. Let me start by adding my voice to the global voices that remember our brother James Cone who passed on recently. James Cone taught Steve …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: In the afternoon of this year’s Good Friday, the USA-based leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) met with the leadership of Black First Land First (BLF) in Johannesburg. The …
By BO Staff Writer The radical black consciousness movement, Black First Land First (BLF) is set to host its Radical Economic Transformation Now rally today in Thokoza. The movement says the rally seeks to “send a clear message to the government and the ruling party” on the questions of land expropriation without compensation, the implementation …
By BO Staff Writer Today judgement was handed down on the Black First Land First’s (BLF) application for the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) to unban their return planned march to KPMG. The follow-up march was banned earlier this month when member of the Johannesburg Metro police department (JMPD), Inspector Nkuna, refused to grant BLF …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was originally published on the Black First Land First website. On September 5, 2016 our movement issued the following statement which we are reissuing below in the light of the parliamentary coup planned for today. We have chosen the path of anti imperialism and we are at war …
By BO Staff Writer Money is being raised by white monopoly capital in South Africa and abroad to destroy the radical black consciousness movement Black First Land First (BLF). Sources who do not want to be name for fear of reprisal have told Black Opinion that part of the funds are being used to legally …
By BO Staff Writer Black First Land First (BLF) president, Andile Mngxitama told journalists on Tuesday that white people are not invited to a land gathering that the movement is organising. “White people must not come unless they are coming to give us our land back,” Mngxitama said, answering a question from a journalist. “We …
By BO Staff Writer Last Friday the Press Ombud Johan Retief, acting on a complaint lodged with him by Black First Land First (BLF), ruled that News24 had committed certain serious offences in terms of the Code of Ethics and Conduct. In this regard, News24 had misrepresented that Professor Chris Malikane had called for the …
By BO Staff Writer The Black First Land First (BLF) has won a case against the white owned News24 online publication, after it laid a charge with the Press Ombudsman, relating to the atrocious reporting by News24 on Chris Malikane’s statements regarding taking up arms for radical economic transformation. Press ombudsman, Johan Retief, ruled that …
