By Andile Mngxitama Check this: i. the Oppenheimers force workers back to work – silence! ii. Johann Rupert lies that his R1 billion is a donation – silence! iii. White monopoly capital (WMC) breaks lockdown with exporting wines – silence! iv. the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) allows the planting of 5G towers …
By Andile Mngxitama Do you remember on the 18th of March, when parliamentarians were pledging support to Ramaphosa? They were all happy to go home on full pay. Remember that the lockdown for all of us started only on the 27th of March. Parliament gave Ramaphosa all the powers to serve white monopoly capital (WMC) …
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 …
Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai. Image: Tech Startups By Andile Mngxitama Tonight (7 April 2020) I won’t go live at 21:30. Instead I offer you Dr Shiva Ayyadurai. This guy knows his story. He has 4 degrees from MIT, is the inventor of email and polymath, and is an esteemed scientist, entrepreneur, and inventor. He is …
By Andile Mngxitama The New World Order (NWO) language and belief is deeply conservative and disabling. It runs the risk of concealing how the same old capitalist, imperialist, patriarchal, racist system functions by assigning to some shadowy forces the powers beyond the ordinary and thereby making organising against the global capitalist system (imperialism) virtually impossible. …
By Andile Mngxitama In 2010 I wrote this piece, “Research on HIV prevention gel put black lives at risk“, in protest against the use of poor black women as laboratory rats. I faced a disciplinary hearing for it. The aids industry, led by Zackie Achmat, and a bunch of racists like Mark Heywood wanted me fired …
By Andile Mngxitama Following President Ramaphosa’s announcement last week of the 21 days national lockdown and the subsequent intervention measures to support SMMEs affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of confusion prevails regarding the business operations of the spaza shops and hawkers in the townships. Check this: 1. The Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola …
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 …
In the light of the intervention measures (including a dedicated spaza shop support scheme) announced last week by the Minister of Small Business Development, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, to support SMMEs affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Black First Land First (BLF) hereby presents its intervention below: Township Economic Charter Preamble Our land, our township, our economy! 1. …
By Andile Mngxitama Before President Ramaphosa announced the national lockdown Black First Land First (BLF) asked him, amongst other things, to: i. give us free data; and ii. give us food. But then, some said that we are negative. Can you imagine what kind of profits the mobile cellular and Wi-Fi networks are making during …
