President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. Photo: Carolina Cabral/Getty Images By BO Staff Writer “In expressing my solidarity to you in this important historic challenge, as well as our consternation and grief for the consequences of the pandemic in the U.S., I also have the obligation to make you aware that as the world focuses on …
Bill Gates. Image Ladders Black First Land First (BLF) is appalled that Bill Gates, like the openly racist French doctors Camille Locht and Jean-Paul Mira, is planning to use blacks as his laboratory rats. BLF rejects any clinical trials of so called COVID-19 vaccines at the instance of Bill Gates. Bill Gates is too involved …
By Andile Mngxitama This advert of the Gauteng government which promises lekker food to the hungry during the covid-19 lockdown, and provides a toy phone number to call for such assistance, reminds me of a poster I saw at the Kgosi Mampuru prison when we were locked up there in 2016 for 7 days at …
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Getty images BO Staff Writer Former President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has taken to social media networks to point out the important role that the State should play in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a video circulating on social networker platforms said, …
Johann Rupert. Image: Wikipedia Commons By BO Staff Writer The Sunday World reported this week that Johann Rupert’s R1 billion donation is “not a freebie but loans to SMEs“. In this regard “[t]he Rupert Family has tapped small businesses financing company, Business Partners, a company the family played a key role in establishing nearly 40 …
President Cyril Ramaphosa President Ramaphosa continues with his haphazard and timid response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In his public address yesterday, Ramaphosa promised to deploy 10 000 field workers who would do door to door screening for symptoms of Covid-19. This is too little too late. What is required is mass testing! South Korea arrested …
The reported murders of two South African citizens by the security forces is alarming. It is shocking that President Ramaphosa didn’t address nor acknowledge these deaths – one in Vosloorus, in the East Rand and another in Ravensmead, in Cape Town – at the hands of the police and army. This attitude reminds us how the …
By Andile Mngxitama The people are crying of hunger. They say, “give us food then we shall stay at home”. This is not defiance. It’s desperate call for help. Black First Land First (BLF) calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately: 1. Suspend rental payments 2. Give people food or a stipend of R2000 each …
By Andile Mngxitama It’s month end. Rental and mortgage bond payments are going to be demanded but there is a lockdown and Ramaphosa doesn’t care. See what caring Presidents have done for their people. Venezuela, led by President Nicholas Maduro, has granted its people numerous benefits for their survival during the current lockdown of the …
By Andile Mngxitama Comrades, you don’t have to be in parliament to hold the executive accountable. The Gauteng government has provided a toll free number to call to get assistance for those in need of food during the coronavirus lockdown. I though that this was a great initiative and if it works for Gauteng then …
