By Andile Mngxitama Today the #BLF26 will appear in court in Pretoria. Our matter was thrown out after 2 years of court proceedings. The Ramaphosa administration has unleashed an Afrikaner NPA prosecutor to draft new charges on the same facts against us. We are now charged under an apartheid 1953 piece of legislation. Our sin …
26 Black First Land First (BLF) members were arrested on 18 July 2016 and subsequently imprisoned for 8 days on false charges of public violence, intimidation, trespassing, and kidnapping. This followed a protest undertaken by the BLF26 at the office of the former Public Protector (PP), Thuli Madonsela, regarding her failure to investigate and report …
By Andile Mngxitama I’m sorry to say we told you so. When people chose to vote for Cyril Ramaphosa claiming they were voting for the African National Congress (ANC), they very well knew they were giving Stellenbosch and London political power to deal with anyone perceived to be for Radical Economic Transformation (RET). It is …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website: On 18 July 2016 Black First Land First (BLF) engaged in protest action at the office of the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, that resulted in 26 BLF members being arrested and subsequently imprisoned for 8 days on …
By BO Staff Writer From conversations during prison visits with a comrade who conducted political education with fellow incarcerated persons at the Pretoria Central Maximum Security Prison (women’s section) from 19 – 24 July 2016. This curriculum was previously issued by Black First Land First and is now republished by Black Opinion: Theme 1: Colonialism …
By Vuyolwethu Mqaba Vuyo Mqaba, a Black First Land First (BLF) member and one of the 26 BLF members who were arrested when the organisation protested at the offices of the public protector pens a detailed five-part series documenting their time at the Kgosi Mampuru II maximum security prison. Read Part 1 here. Part 2 …
By Vuyolwethu Mqaba Vuyo Mqaba, a Black First Land First (BLF) member and one of the 26 BLF members who were arrested when the organisation protested at the offices of the public protector pens a detailed five-part series documenting their time at the Kgosi Mampuru II maximum security prison. Part I is called: Arrest and …
#BLF26 prison diary: Part 1 By Yerushka Chetty During my 9th year of age, months went by without any sign of my dad. He just stopped visiting us. I was troubled by this but as there was an unspoken rule at home that we don’t speak of him, I didn’t ask. My father was into …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published in the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: Twenty six Black First Land First members (also known as the #BLF26) will appear again this morning in the Pretoria Regional Court – located at the corner of Francis Baard & …
By Ncedisa Mpemnyama His hands flail aggressively, sort of like those of Dhalsim, the video game character from the Street Fighter series. They are weirdly longish and gangly, with clearly visible scars from a fresh round of nyaope injections. He gets animated when he speaks, demanding a cigarette, a Zol or money. His machine gun …
