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 …
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 …
