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 …
By Andile Mngxitama Cyril Ramaphosa and the African National Congress (ANC) alliance’s anti-racism campaign is an insult to Steve Biko, George Floyd and Collins Khosa. The campaign is an haphazard affair meant to essentially take our eyes away from the complicity of the Ramaphosa administration in racism. Racism is flourishing under Ramaphosa from the arrogance …
Tsietsi Mashinini, leader of June 16, 1976 uprising By Andile Mngxitama It’s June 16 soon. We must once again explain. It was not the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) or African National Congress (ANC) that sparked the great uprising. The June 16, 1976 uprising was in fact the result of the work of Steve Biko’s Black …
