By Ncedisa Mpemnyama “Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!” ― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Today is Mandela Day again. The icon celebrated would have been 100 years old if he were still alive. Ordinarily, the day is used to remember and venerate the icon for his selfless leadership …
By BO Staff Writer Yesterday, the Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, ordered that President Jacob Zuma call in the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate corruption and unlawful appropriation of funds at the Nelson Mandela funeral in 2013. Mkhwebane found evidence of inflation of prices, misappropriation of funds, poor planning and disregard for supply chain …
BO Staff Writer Radical black consciousness movement, Black First Land First (BLF), has come out in defence of Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, after African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe, dismissed Mugabe’s comments about the ANC selling out its people during the 1994 negotiations. Mugabe has on numerous occasions told his Zanu-PF party supporters …
By Tebogo Brown The media in the past few days has been abuzz with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s 80th birthday. I am not trying to be a party pooper but we need to remind those who don’t or may have forgotten that young men such as Stompie Seipei and Lolo Sono were murdered long before they were …
By BO Staff Writer During October 2015, the top leadership of the ostensible “Marxist-Leninist” parliamentary party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led by its “Commander in Chief” Julius Malema took a tour to London where they met amongst others, ‘Lord’ Robin Renwick. The meeting with Renwick and other representatives of imperialism happened under the secret rule called the “Chatham …
By BO Staff Writer On the occassion of the birthday of Professor Frank B. Wilderson III, we republish this important excerpt from an essay written for the book, Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko. “Biko and the Problematic of Presence” By Professor Frank B. Wilderson: “Let us assume that black people receive the …
By BO Staff Writer Happy Birthday to Frank B Wilderson! In joyous celebration Black Opinion re-issues James Zug’s “The Italicized Life of Frank Wilderson ’78” – which was previously issued by Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, September – October 2010. It’s a fitting tribute to a beautiful living legacy. BO is indeed inspired by your publisher’s credo, “Read. …
By BO staff writer Like Chinua Achebe used to say, “the world is like a mask dancing, if you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place”. Ever since the media frenzy surrounding former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor’s bizarre claims of the Gupta family offering her a ministerial job, it has become somewhat contrite …
