Our father, Stephen Bantu Biko, would be 75 years old today – he who died so that we may be free. He suffered like Jesus Christ to end our suffering here on earth. He knew the stand he took would lead to the death of the physical body, but would ensure the eternal life of …
By Andile Mngxitama I’m convinced that without Christianity correctly interpreted blacks shall never be freed. We are a Christian people as a matter of historical fact and contemporary reality. Our job is to identify true prophets who are not captured by Stellenbosch such as Major 1. From there we free the land and the people …
By Andile Mngxitama There are some amongst us who claim to be woke and are embarrassed by the fact that the founders of real wokeness were almost all Christians. I mean who can be more woke than: i. Marcus Garvey; ii. Robert Sobukwe; and iii. Steve Biko? We can’t conceal the totality of the belief …
By Andile Mngxitama Please man, if you have no ideology you are going to chase events emanating from the central antagonism. And since you don’t know what the main contradiction is you will be forming a political party for each of the secondary contradictions created by the main contradiction. You will form a party to …
By Andile Mngxitama Please note: people who were politicized by the ANC into non racialism and the Freedom Charter do not understand what racism and white supremacy are. They generally confuse attitudes and bad manners with racism. They then formulate responses based on this wrong understanding of racism. They have no understanding at all of …
It’s Biko Day! 43 years later Steve Biko Lives! Black First Land First (BLF) is an orthodox Black Consciousness (BC) organization which insists on the application of Biko’s BC in its purest form because it represents a leap forward from the bowels of black nationalism that sprung from the first encounter between white oppression and …
By Andile Mngxitama Often I underestimate the role of mentors. I find it too elitist. Truth is, I had mentors guiding my understanding of Black Consciousnes (BC). They didn’t call themselves mentors. They were my comrades. But now when I see the mistakes and egoistical over-indulgence of people who come to radical black thought through …
Steve Biko, father of the June 16, 1976 Insurrection By BO Staff Writer Muammar al-Qaddafi, father of the 1969 Libyan Revolution Jacob Zuma, father of Radical Economic Transformation Mao Zedong, father of the Chinese Revolution Andile Mngxitama, father of the simmering Black Revolution Fidel Castro, father of the Cuban Revolution …
By BO Staff Writer Dr Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, Cde Tiyani Lybon Mabasa, and Prof Itumeleng Mosala – you can’t miss this outstanding lineup of Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) panelists who will tonight be discussing the location of the June 16, 1976 moment in the history of South Africa. The discussion will be streamed live via …
Khotso Seatlholo (left), Tsietsi Mashinini (right) By Andile Mngxitama Tsietsi Mashinini, the chairperson of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), and his deputy Khotso Seatlholo were members of the South African Students’ Movement (SASM). Both the SSRC and SASM were among the 18 Black Consciousness-affiliated organisations banned on 19 October 1977. After the June 16 …