Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mr Julius Malema I’m moved to write this open letter to both of you in a desperate hope that you will be able to muster enough courage to tell the nation the truth. In February, an event which can be justifiably characterised as “historic” happened – your political parties cast …
By Andile Mngxitama The post-African National Congress (ANC) lekgotla statement by Cyril Ramaphosa is a distortion of the land expropriation without compensation process. Ramaphosa is playing political football with a matter of life and death. First of all, the impression created that the public hearings on land expropriation are about constitutional democracy is a blatant …
By Phumzile ‘Phurah’ Jack The current debates around land expropriation without compensation have forced us to come to grips with the questions, who are the rightful owners of the land and once we get it, who must own and administer it? Any wise individual must reject the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) position, and some sections …
By BO Staff Writer A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Temaswati Nqcobile Dlamini has appealed to the president of Black First Land First (BLF), Andile Mngxitama to explain the meaning of Land Expropriation Without Compensation. This follows the shocking call by the EFF that land in the hands of blacks, more specifically the …
By Phakamani Sibalukhulu It is now clear – the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is no longer serious about ‘Land Expropriation’. The last man standing and leading the fight to solve the land issue and taking it very seriously, is Andile Mngxitama from Black First Land First (BLF). To prove that the EFF abandoned the issue …
By BO Staff Writer Black First Land First (BLF) president, Andile Mngxitama told journalists on Tuesday that white people are not invited to a land gathering that the movement is organising. “White people must not come unless they are coming to give us our land back,” Mngxitama said, answering a question from a journalist. “We …
By BO Staff Writer This article was originally published on the eNCA website. Namibia’s president said on Tuesday that the government is considering radical land expropriation to spur the transfer of property to the country’s black majority. Speaking at Namibia’s 27th independence celebrations, President Hage Geingob said the government should evoke part of the Constitution …
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 African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) has criticised the ANC Parliament caucus’s decision to not vote with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to amend the Consitution to allow for expropriation of land without compensation. The ANC caucus, led by Jackson Mthembu, betrayed Jacob Zuma’s call to expropriate land without compensation, …
By Andile Mngxitama Yesterday, black people in South Africa decisively lost and whites won hands down. Congratulations to the pro-white Democratic Alliance (DA) and the extreme right wing Freedom Front Plus (FF+). The irony of this situation is that the South African parliament is predominantly black. Historically, settler white monopoly capital in South Africa has …
