By Andile Mngxitama How do we assess a political party? Is it by what it says; what it does; or both? What’s its proclaimed agenda? Does it practice what it preaches? Can it advance the Black Agenda? On Wednesday I went live on my Facebook page and critically evaluated the top three parliamentary parties in …
By Andile Mngxitama Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – the great Russian revolutionary, the scientist, the artist who danced with the guillotine to end the brutal feudal order of Czar Nicholas II – turned 150 on 22 April. In a tribute to Lenin, which was broadcast live on Wednesday on my Facebook page, I deliberated on the …
By Andile Mngxitama Yesterday I asked on Facebook, what makes the Democratic Alliance (DA) the “better devil” in relation to the African National Congress (ANC) – as is claimed by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). No one has since provided an answer. In the absence of a response must we then conclude that people of …
By Andile Mngxitama The video of Matamela laughing at Juju has reminded me of how Juju had previously laughed at me. In 2014, we were working on the party’s election manifesto and there was no expression of the Nationalization of the Banks in the document. So I raised the issue. Juju looked at Floyd, laughed …
Goodrich Gardee. Image credit: SABC By Andile Mngxitama I served in the War Council of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with Goodrich Gardee – this man who says that parliament’s salary is too low. He used to literally tremble in fear when Julius Malema spoke to him harshly. It was a sorry thing to witness. …
EFF MP Naledi Chirwa. Image credit: African News Agency (ANA) By BO Staff Writer Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leaders have defended their party MP Naledi Chirwa after her nationality was challenged on Twitter in a discussion sparked on Sunday by “Lerato Pillay“: “One day I will make a thread on how Malawian Naledi Chirwa’s family …
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo credit: African News Agency (ANA) By Andile Mngxitama Did you know? 1. Cyril Ramaphosa concluded deals with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) worth R1.4 trillion? 2. The IPPs contribute less than 5% of the generation of electricity. 3. Eskom pays R93 million a day to these IPPs. 4. The 27 IPPs that …
Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, delivers his budget speech in parliament yesterday. Image: GCIS The budget speech delivered by the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, I s nothing short of a direct attack on the poor and a brake on national reconstruction. Mboweni gave nuts and bolts to the pro Stellenbosch State of the Nation Address …
Adriaan Snyman, the man who handed Malema the gun. Photo credit: Afri News Agency (ANA) Black First Land First (BLF) laid criminal charges against Adriaan Snyman on August 2, 2018 relating to the gross negligent handling of a firearm. BLF also asked that a declaration of unfitness to possess a firearm in terms of the …
Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X. Image credit: Atlantic Black Star By Andile Mngxitama I have noticed a new attempt to demonize Brother Louis Farrakhan. There is circulation of his statement soon after the assassination of Brother Malcolm X which seem to approve of the assassination. We will do well to remember that there was a …
