By BO Staff Writer The following statement was originally published on the Black First Land First website. On September 5, 2016 our movement issued the following statement which we are reissuing below in the light of the parliamentary coup planned for today. We have chosen the path of anti imperialism and we are at war …
By Andile Mngxitama It has come to this. White Monopoly Capital (WMC) has choreographed the end of its most irksome adversaries to a tee. Tomorrow, President Jacob Zuma is facing a parliamentary conspiracy sponsored by WMC. The story has not been told but it makes for depressing reading. WMC has openly offered money to President …
By Munyaradzi Gwisai In the following piece, the Zimbabwean Marxist scholar and activist, with direct experience of the struggle in Zimbabwe, offers the South African left forces some lessons from Zimbabwe. The political economy analysis provided here is one of the most significant contributions in understanding the current crisis in South Africa. Gwisai warns against …
By Lindsay Maasdorp Dear President Jacob Zuma Our inspirational leader Stephen Bantu Biko once said, “Township life alone makes it a miracle for anyone to live up to adulthood. There we see a situation of absolute want in which black will kill black to be able to survive.” Today on your 75th birthday we realise …
By BO Editorial Collective Black Opinion turns 1 years old today. With that, we continue to implore Black people to think for themselves. Thus we are running a writing competition under the following details: Who is the enemy of black liberation in South Africa? 1. Jacob Zuma? 2. The Guptas? 3. White monopoly capital/those who …
By Yerushka Chetty “Dear all just remember, President Zuma started a chess club in Robben Island. When others were reading Hegel, he was perfecting his chess moves” Andile Mngxitama, President of Black First Land First 1. On agitation and propaganda There is no way in contemporary times that one can go to war without first …
By Staff Writer Beneficiaries of government grants should sleep a lot easier because their grants will be paid come April 1, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday at the Union Buildings. The president was addressing the media at the President’s Coordinating Council (PCC) quarterly meeting. The PCC consists of Premiers and the Leaders of the …
By BO Staff Writer On Friday, President Jacob Zuma said Black people must not quarrel about the question of land, instead they must be united on the issue. Zuma was speaking at the opening of the National House of Traditional leaders. “This [land] is a matter, I believe the blacks in general and the Africans in …
By BO Staff Writer The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have been dead silent about President Jacob Zuma’s call to amend the constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation. The EFF’s first cardinal pillar (before it was changed to fall in line with the interests of white capital of course) was land expropriation without compensation …
By BO Staff Writer Yesterday, President Jacob Zuma declared South Africa’s laws would be amended to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation. Zuma was speaking at the launch of Operation Phakisa on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development in Pretoria on Friday. “We must seek new ways of doing things which will change …
