By Andile Mngxitama Is it not interesting that almost all the South African (SA) liberation movements – (African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), and Azanian Peoole’s Organization (AZAPO) – have abandoned or diluted indigenous ideologies and philosophies for what they call “scientific socialism”? The ANC was de facto driven by scientific …
By Andile Mngxitama Two black people were killed in Mpumalanga just this week in African National Congress (ANC) branch meetings. Securing a position in the ANC leadership, has become a way to end personal poverty. I don’t think we can blame blacks for murdering each other for ANC positions. The problem is deep. The ANC …
Photo taken at the OR Tambo Airport yesterday during the arousing welcoming event for President Zuma who was returning from Cuba after receiving medical treatment there. By Andile Mngxitama These are radical economic transformation (RET) forces from the Free State. They were giving me progress report on my comrade Lenyehelo Lenyehelo who has since joined …
By Andile Mngxitama I remain extremely humbled and encouraged by all the people who voted for Black First Land First (BLF) in the last elections. We know for a fact that BLF received well over the 20 000 votes they claim we got. We were robbed! It must also be remembered that white monopoly capital …
Image credit: SA History Online By Andile Mngxitama The Africa National Congress (ANC) of 1912, known at that time as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), was a blacks only organization. The ANC of 2020 is white controlled and was born with the Freedom Charter in 1955 in Kliptown, Soweto. It’s a bit irritating. …
By Andile Mngxitama Hayibo kanti this Xhosa exceptionalism is real kanti? This is one of the most regrettable developments in popular imagination. It reverses efforts to build black solidarity. We are going to pay for this as black people. Watch the backlash. Wits University is the only liberal campus that has tribal societies. When the …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website: Black First Land First (BLF) joins the rest of the progressive world in wishing former president Mugabe’s soul to Rest In Power. We also wish his family and all those affected by his passing, strength during this period. …
Political report on the 2019 elections By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: “I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was first published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: We are indeed in an interregnum. The old is dying and the new is not ready to emerge as the ‘new’ in the truest expression of that formulation. Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela …
