By Andile Mngxitama Greetings people of Steve Biko. Sgho Chiloane had created a beautiful piece but he included a self confessed anti Black Consciousness (BC) fellow on the right hand side of Biko. The artist has artistic freedom but we too have a duty to insist on authentic representation. So someone was kind enough to …
Apartheid-era mass murderer, General Constand Viljoen. Image: alchetron By Andile Mngxitama In truth, we shouldn’t be suprised that the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) has sent condolences to the family of the mass murderer, and apartheid enforcer General Constand Viljoen, who passed away on Friday. The PAC, like the African National Congress (ANC), is …
By Mrembole Tebza Mogoera I’m now going to be a bit controversial – and I know I might get a backlash and develop some enemies – for speaking this truth. Here it goes: I think Andile Mngxitama is our modern day Steve Biko, and us, his followers, are the modern day Mamphela Ramphelas, Barney Pityanas, …
By Andile Mngxitama Blacks calling themselves “humans” as an organising thought are totally innocent of the 500 years of the creation of the “human” as a category which is parasitic on blackness and finds its coherence on the basis of keeping the black as the sub human. Read the preamble of the pro slavery American …
By Andile Mngxitama Black First Land First (BLF) dramatises a Black Consciousness critique of the anti blackness of the South African socio, economic and political reality that was inherited in 1994 and has not changed fundamentally. You can’t fully understand the black positionality in South Africa (SA) today without understanding what BLF is in the …
Yonela Boli – a student at UFH, allegedly stabbed by his girlfriend. Image credit: Twitter @_TakaBusi By Andile Mngxitama One day soon we must talk about how the white power structure has successfully demonised the black man. We are the devil incarnate and a trash deserving of no sympathy. The white feminism of UCT/Wits has …
Yonela Boli, a student at UFH, allegedly stabbed by his girlfriend. Image credit: Twitter @_TakaBusi By Andile Mngxitama Early Saturday morning Yonela Boli, a student of Fort Hare University, was allegedly killed by his girlfriend at the campus residence after an argument between the two. She had stabbed the fellow before. Blacks are at war …
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. Gallo Images By Andile Mngxitama Exactly 46 years ago today in Botswana, a bomb went off and took the life of our hero and brother Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. The bomb was sent by the apartheid government on behalf of the white community as a whole. Tiro like Steve Biko was a liberation …
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. Image credit: SAHO By Andile Mngxitama I think of Tiro as a brother of Steve Biko. Tiro and Biko, Brothers in Black Consciousness (BC). These guys rhythm as one. I read how Tiro got impatient with the Keith Mokoape group. After their resolution was defeated by Biko’s powerful intervention, the Keith group …
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 …
