By Andile Mngxitama I haven’t paid enough attention to the USA political scene but it seems like after decades of two party domination and no chance of a progressive political movement ever making an impact in formal politics, a clever move was hatched to use the Democratic Party to advance a progressive agenda. This explains …
From 1882 – 1968, an estimated 4,743 men were lynched in the United States, often after an accusation of rape, prompting the NAACP to claim ‘[w]hites started lynching because they felt it was necessary to protect white women’. We now know that many of these women lied, and men died. Emmet Till was only 14 …
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 BO Staff Writer Julius Malema is a master manipulator of the media for his own gain. On Christmas day he managed yet again to get a nice scoop as the white owned media happily projected him as a caring politician who spent Christmas with “the poorest of the poor“. Malema organized a Christmas event …
In honour of the revolutionary contributions of Queen Nzinga who died 353 years ago Black Opinion is reissuing the following statement published on the Black First Land First blog on 17 December 2015. December 17, 1663 is the death date of Queen Nzinga (Nzinga Mbande). On this 352nd anniversary of her death BLF takes the …
By Andile Mngxitama There are some people who genuinely believe that there are aspects of life which are not controlled by politics. Some black people even say, “don’t politicize everything”, or worse, some say, “not everything is about race”. First, politics is what determine everything, where you live, how you live, where you get education, …
By Neo Mokatsanyane (This lecture was delivered in honor of the legacy of Steven Bantu Biko to the community of Boipatong in Sedibeng on 24 September 2016. The event was hosted by the Sedibeng Regional Chapter of Black First Land First) I welcome and greet you all my black sisters and brothers, kale dumedisa kao …
By Lwazi Lushaba Below is an open letter written by Dr Lwazi Lushaba to Professor Anthony Butler: HOD Politics Department, where he teaches at the University of Cape Town. In the afternoon of the 24th August 2016, the HoD of Politics at UCT addressed to me a letter, whose contents we shall in a moment …
Featured Image: Novelist, feminist, activist, scholar Arundhati Roy. Photo: Elle Magazine/Huffington Post. By Aishwarya Subramanyam Black Opinion republishes this interview with novelist, feminist, activist and scholar from India, Arundhati Roy. Roy touches on a number of important subjects like feminism, the struggle with empire and about writing in general. I have often wondered whether we …
Featured image: Black people stand in line to vote for the first time on 27 April 1994, in the hope of ending the racist apartheid regime. By Yerushka Chetty This generation is told “freedom is coming”. Twenty two years ago we were told “freedom has arrived, we are now free”. We were given a new constitution …
