By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website: On 18 July 2016 Black First Land First (BLF) engaged in protest action at the office of the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, that resulted in 26 BLF members being arrested and subsequently imprisoned for 8 days on …
By BO Staff Writer When Black First Land First (BLF) called for the firing of Pravin Gordhan as Minister of Finance on account of him being compromised and conflicted by virtue of being beholden to white monopoly capital (WMC); as well as when fraud charges were preferred against him in relation to how Ivan Pillay …
#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 …
