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 …
By Andile Mngxitama The story of Steve Biko’s assassination is similar to that of Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK). The apartheid police did the initial attack on Biko; the doctors concealed it; and the judges and prosecutors made sure that the killers were never made to account. So the whole white establishment assassinated him. The …
By Andile Mngxitama Steve Biko systematized black radical thought in South Africa (SA) into Black Consciousness (BC). Like most thinkers Biko didn’t invent the ideas that he had called BC, he merely systematized them. Lots of people who resist giving Biko his place as supreme thinker on the black condition have no problem granting Karl …
By Andile Mngxitama The emergence of tribalism in South Africa (SA) is a reflection of how deep the depoliticization of the youth has gone since 1994. It is mostly the youth who are pushing tribalism today. The youth of the 1980s would never uphold tribe against black solidarity. The broad Black Consciousness Movement was very …
