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 date: 11 April 2016 Birthday Special On Frank Wilderson’s Birthday The following piece was first published in “Chicken Bones: A Journal For Literary & Artistic African-American Themes”. In celebration of Frank B Wilderson’s birthday today Black Opinion is republishing it hereunder: “Biko and the Problematic of Presence By Frank B. Wilderson, …
by BO staff writer date: 11 April 2016 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. Its a fitting tribute to a beautiful living legacy. BO is indeed inspired by …
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 …
