By Andile Mngxitama When white monopoly capital (WMC): i. came for the Guptas, some of us helped them; ii. destroyed ANN7, some of us celebrated; iii. came for President Zuma, some amongst us helped; iv. destroyed Brian Molefe, some of us helped to finished him off; v. came for Black First Land First (BLF), some …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: South Africa is a capitalist racist patriarchal colonial enclave. This means that black women are the most oppressed as they suffer the burden of tripple oppression (race, class and patriachy) at …
By BO Staff Writer The following article was previously published on 22 October 2017 on the BLF website and is reissued by BO. Black First Land First (BLF) calls on the British Lord and colonialist, Peter Hain, to refrain from his evil scheme of regime change in South Africa. Britain failed dismally to stop the …
By BO Staff Writer The following article by Vijay Prashad titled “Third World Quarterly row: Why some western intellectuals are trying to debrutalise colonialism”, was previously published on the scroll.in website and is reissued below by Black Opinion: “The author explains why he resigned from the editorial board of the journal after it published an …
By BO Staff Writer On 2 April 2017, the federal executive of the Democratic Alliance (DA) decided to charge Helen Zille via the process of a disciplinary hearing following a report it received on an investigation regarding her pro-colonialism tweets via her personal Twitter account on 16 May 2017 which suggested inter alia that colonialism …
By Lufuno Gogoro It is undeniable that Frantz Fanon identifies European, or “white” culture as racist to the core. It is equally undeniable that he affirmed the likelihood of the discourses of knowledge emanating from this culture being equally racist. It stands to reason that a culture, which regards itself as being superior to all …
By BO Staff Writer The black consciousness movement, Black First Land First (BLF), says it will open cases of racism against Democratic Alliance (DA) Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille. “BLF shall be opening cases of racism against Helen Zille with the Equality Court, and report her to the Human Rights Commission,” the movement said in …
by BO staff writer A year ago, Andile Mngxitama responded to the then outburst of “decolonisation of literature” which was led in public by Thando Mgqolozana. In the piece first published in Books Live of Sunday Times, Mngxitama wished for a blacks only literary festival. The Rutanang Book Fair, the first of its kind in …
By BO Staff Writer During October 2015, the top leadership of the ostensible “Marxist-Leninist” parliamentary party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led by its “Commander in Chief” Julius Malema took a tour to London where they met amongst others, ‘Lord’ Robin Renwick. The meeting with Renwick and other representatives of imperialism happened under the secret rule called the “Chatham …
By BO Staff Writer What is “State Capture?” There is an assumption that we all know what these words mean. We all repeat these words and the media uses them as short hand to refer to the controversial relationship between the State President, Preasident Jacob Zuma, and the Gupta family. It has come to pass that, “State …
