By BO Staff Writer Today, AmaBhungane’s Stefaans Brummer intimidated Black First Land First (BLF) leaders, President, Andile Mngxitama, Deputy President, Zanele Lwana, Treasurer, Thandiswa Yaphi and Spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp, at the Cape Town International Airport. Brummer, who Mngxitama has opened a case of intimidation against, followed the leaders and took pictures of them as they …
By Zimasa Mpemnyama Over the past few weeks, the phrase ‘free media’ has been used to characterise the media landscape of South Africa. Although the phrase has been in use for quite sometime now, it was catapulted into the national conversation again after the Black First Land First (BLF) movement picketed outside the home of …
By BO Staff Writer In a court room full of Black First Land First (BLF) land activists, the anti-racist movement came face-to-face with white racist journalists, and their black lackeys, arguing that it was their right to protest against racists. BLF was brought to court by the South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF) for their …
By BO Staff Writer White racist journalists, including Peter Bruce, Adriaan Basson and Tim Cohen, have taken the black radical movement, Black First Land First (BLF) to court for demonstrating their right to protest. The movement has heavily criticised white owned media for its hypocrisy and racism – covering up white corruption and making it …
By Ncedisa Mpemnyama The war has begun and all are called to take sides. The war is between white monopoly capital versus those who are resisting it. On the one hand you have a faction inside the African National Congress (ANC) led by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and his lieutenant, former Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, …
By BO Staff Writer Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, is looking into reports of financial mismanagement at National Treasury, which were exposed by television news channel, ANN7, last week. The channel ran an hour and a half long expose uncovering an internal auditing report which was swept under the rug by former Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan. …
By BO Staff Writer By now most South Africans are in the know about the so-called Gupta state capture emails. It matters little that the e-mails are fake. However, most South Africans do not know that an internal audit report of the Treasury department has fingered former finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, in instances of corruption …
By Yerushka Chetty Comrades try this at home. Pick a person and remind them for the next two weeks how beautiful and loved they are. Be consistent. Do this daily for two weeks. Take another person that you see everyday and for the next two weeks create a story – any story, for example, of …
By BO Staff Writer The Black First Land First (BLF) movement has written a letter to the press ombudsman demanding that News24 be punished for its distortion of comments made by Professor Chris Malikane at its Blacks in Dialogue event. After Blacks in Dialogue, Malikane was misquoted by a News24 report as having said that …
By BO Staff Writer Yesterday, the Black First Land First (BLF) movement’s blacks only monthly event, Blacks In Dialogue (BID), hosted the finance minister’s advisor, Professor Chris Malikane, to discuss his ideas around radical economy transformation. In the talk, Malikane highlighted the need for a minimum program which would unite “progressive” black people across the …
