By Andile Mngxitama On 25 May 2020, I went live on my Facebook page and engaged on the colonial border question. The question of whether to open (as suggested by Julius Malema) or to close (as argued by Herman Mashaba) the borders, entails two sides of the same white monopoly capital (WMC) coin. Malema says …
Photo credit: BO archives Black First Land First (BLF) is yet again forced to comment on the lack of a pro black ideology, black consciousness (BC), by black political parties like the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The lack of BC has reduced these parties to being servants of white monopoly capitalists like Johann Rupert. Now …
By Andile Mngxitama Greetings people of Steve Biko. Sgho Chiloane had created a beautiful piece but he included a self confessed anti Black Consciousness (BC) fellow on the right hand side of Biko. The artist has artistic freedom but we too have a duty to insist on authentic representation. So someone was kind enough to …
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. …
By Andile Mngxitama Stellenbosch runs this joint. Its immediate plan is as follows: 1. Remove the Public Protector: It’s as good as done! 2. Convict Jacob Zuma: They don’t want him to go to jail. They just want him declared a criminal and all the perks removed. 3. Get a new deal with Juju or …
Image credit: Daily Maverick The revelation by the former scribe of Daily Maverick (DM), Karabo Modiba, that he was paid to write propaganda pieces against certain leaders doesn’t surprise Black First Land First (BLF) at all. DM has long stopped being an objective media outlet when it chose to be the bulldog of the Stellenbosch …
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 …
EFF leader Julius Malema. Image via Twitter Julius Malema says the people of Soweto must pay for electricity. He is imputing that there are those who are hiding behind the poor. This is nothing but an insult to the people of Soweto who are involved in a serious struggle with Eskom and the commodification of …
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 …
