By Andile Mngxitama In war you need strategic inflexibility and tactical flexibility, or you are going to shoot yourself in the foot. In my previous status update today, (“Did you know that Derek Hanekom betrayed Nelson Mandela?”), I make a tactical move to help us fight against a clear and present danger – Derek Hanekom. …
Derek Hanekom. Gallo Images By Andile Mngxitama Madiba appointed Derek Hanekom as Minister of Land Affairs and gave him a clear mandate to return 30% of the land to blacks in five years (1994 to 1999). Hanekom did none of the things he was appointed for. He instead hired all his white friends into senior …
By Andile Mngxitama “When you walk into a fight between a black and a white person, you don’t ask questions; you help the black to defeat the white and ask questions after the fight” – this is BC101. It is one of the most important principles of Black Consciousness (BC). But we need to operationalize it into …
Former South African Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. Photo credit: Alexander Joe By Andile Mngxitama I will come back to this topic fully in July. I’m working on a paper on whether Nelson Mandela sold out, by critically examining the “Madiba versus Winnie/Hani options”. I know that lots of people repeat the mantra of …
Blacks need to know that we are almost always manipulated.
Image: BO archives By BO Staff Writer Black Opinion previously published a piece titled, “Who Is Lord Robin Renwick Julius Malema’s Handler From London?”. The content is still relevant and in fact timeless. We have received very encouraging feedback which we are now publishing for your reading pleasure. In the meanwhile, for those who have …
By Andile Mngxitama Dear all, there are some people who continue to insult me for my piece “It’s Mandela Guys!”. I ask anyone to provide me with solid evidence if your answer to the following question is yes: Is there any evidence that Robert Sobukwe and Steve Biko ever underwent military training? Yhuuu the gun …
Image credit: SowetanLive By Andile Mngxitama My beloved blacks, can we stop the conspiracy theory that the guy who was released from prison was not the real Mandela, and can we stop using pictures to try and prove this theory. The person who went to jail and was released from there was the same person …
Photo credit: metro By Andile Mngxitama In the days of my youth when Nelson Mandela was still alive I regarded him as a sellout. This was when it wasn’t popular to call him a sellout. Immediately after his death I enquired, “what have white people done to acknowledge Mandela’s magnanimity towards them? He gave them …
Vukani Community Development (Vukani) is rallying everybody to unite in solidarity behind the Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, to push government to stop the witch-hunt against her and to allow her to continue serving the people as a Chapter 9 Institution. Vukani is led by Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela, who is the organization’s chairperson and the …
