By Andile Mngxitama Check … 1. When BLF said that ABSA, Johann Rupert and others stole R26 billion from the South African Reserve Bank, the then Public Protector, Adv Thuli Madonsela, called the police on us claiming we were armed robbers. We were thrown in jail for 8 nights. After our release, BLF shut down …
Dear law graduates, I’m sure that by now you have all seen the decision by the Judge President Dustin Mlambo regarding the report which he set aside of the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, pertaining to the CR17 campaign funds. Mkhwebane in her CR17 report directed the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to probe and prosecute if …
Image credit: Facebook Page of President Jacob Zuma. By Andile Mngxitama I’m convinced that Dunstan Mlambo, the Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court, personally hates Jacob Zuma and the radical economic transformation (RET) program. He vindictively ordered Zuma to personally pay costs in the amount of R10 million. This stems from …
26 Black First Land First (BLF) members were arrested on 18 July 2016 and subsequently imprisoned for 8 days on false charges of public violence, intimidation, trespassing, and kidnapping. This followed a protest undertaken by the BLF26 at the office of the former Public Protector (PP), Thuli Madonsela, regarding her failure to investigate and report …
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 …
