#BLF26 prison diary: Part 1 By Yerushka Chetty During my 9th year of age, months went by without any sign of my dad. He just stopped visiting us. I was troubled by this but as there was an unspoken rule at home that we don’t speak of him, I didn’t ask. My father was into …
By BO Staff Writer The following article by Motapo we Zigidi was previously published on the Africa News 24-7 website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: Sometimes when you hear stories on Facebook or Twitter you don’t always take them as they are. Last week there were reports that Lord Renwick was in the …
By BO Staff Writer Johann Rupert is losing it, literally! Last Friday he shouted through his shareholder meeting, with cigarette on lips. Rupert had to tell the shocked shareholders that profits are a shocking 46% down. Sources who attended the meeting say that Rupert appeared drunk, nervous and was easily agitated. He smoked during the …
By BO Staff Writer Verashni Pillay, former editor of Mail and Guardian (M&G) and now former editor of Huffington Post South Africa (HuffPostSA) as well, quit at the latter publication under a cloud of a fake news scandal. A few weeks ago, the HuffPostSA’s blog section published an article by a supposed white feminist and …
Media Statement Black First Land First (BLF) invites the media to a press conference under the following details: Theme: Picket and march to the Presidency against corruption. Venue: Office 502, OPH Building, 112 Main Street, Johannesburg Date: 6 December 2016 Time: 13:00 Take further notice that: BLF will be marching to President Zuma to call for a …
By BO Staff Writer Introduction Those implicated in the Public Protector’s Report on State Capture have been accused of being recalcitrant witnesses for simply insisting on exercising their right to a fair hearing which includes their right to cross examine witnesses. To this end those implicated are now urged via the Public Protectors Report (and …
By Jeff Koorbanally Dear Adv Mkhwebane I make reference to the letter addressed to you on the 14th, whereby I raised the concern about the sensitization of these reports. I contest, with strongest resentment, that the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, should call or label our country a “State of Capture”, that’s the biggest insult …
By Andile Mngxitama Black Opinion shall continue to break down the so-called state capture report of the former Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela. Today we focus on the number of complaints of state capture lodged with the office of the Public Protector and why Advocate Madonsela lied about the exact number of complaints in her …
By Andile Mngxitama The hastily put together so-called state capture report by the former Public Protector is a mess of a document with illogical lapses, glaring typos and incomplete sentences. But the most shocking aspect of the report is that it is based on some obvious lies which Advocate Madonsela chooses to believe in her …
By BO Staff Writer In the recently released ‘State Capture’ report, the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, recommends a Judicial Commission of Inquiry. On 31 March 2016 BLF wrote to the Presidency and called for a Judicial Commission of Inquiry. Read the movement’s full letter below: The Presidency President Jacob Zuma Union Buildings Government Avenue …
