By BO Staff Writer Black Opinion brings you the first instalment of its podcast, Black Analysis. In this short podcast “Black Opinion’s Black Weekly News Analysis” we hope to be speaking about stories from the previous week and analysing from our Black Opinion perspective. Last week was the first week of New Year and the …
Media Statement Black First Land First (BLF) is once again appalled, but not surprised, at the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) calling for the democratically elected President of Zimbabwe, Comrade Robert Mugabe, to step down. Malema has been brazen in his service to British imperialism since the EFF leadership held a secret meeting …
Image: Zimbabwean Pastor who started the #ThisFlag campaign, Pastor Evans Mawarire. Photo: The Standard. By Pastor Xola Skosana Pastors in the Pentecostal/Charismatic sector of the church are the least prepared leaders to deal with the complexity of post-colonial and neo-colonial dynamics in Black society. Being a Christian is already an admission of susceptibility and gullibility. In …
Image: Supporters of Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. Photo: The Herald. By Zanele Lwana and Lindsay Maasdorp The Zimbabwean revolution is under threat! After a decade and a half of sustained imperialist economic sanctions which were illegally imposed by the European Union and the USA, the economy is on its knees. The recent drought affecting the whole southern …
By BO Staff Writer The Zimbabwe regime-change Western sponsored #ThisFlag campaign is projected as peaceful by the pro-imperialist and colonialist media. However, since the strike it called last week it has in fact shown itself to be violent. The strike was enforced by violence in many parts of Harare. Now the violence of #ThisFlag has …
Image: A #ThisFlag poster doing the rounds on social media. Photo:Twitter By BO Staff Writer The economic woes biting the Zimbabwean society are the creation of years of sanctions and economic sabotage by the West, along with the failed responses of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Add to that a crippling drought caused mainly …
Image: Armed police in Harare. Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP By BO Staff Writer On Wednesday the two main cities of Zimbabwe, Harare and Bulawayo, witnessed a shut down following a call for a stay away strike called by what the country’s Minister of Education, Professor Jonathan Moyo, called “faceless people.” Foreign media, led by The Guardian, …
Featured Image: Albert Chinhanga, one of the N7 Farmers. By Tariro Washinyira Five Zimbabwean men have been successfully growing crops on land abandoned as unprofitable in Malmesbury. The landowner, N7 Meat, gave up farming crops on the land, claiming losses of over R1 million. Zinhanga and four friends met the landowner when buying an ox for …
Featured image: President Robert Mugabe’s regime is under attack again by imperialism and it’s allies in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Photo: financialgazette.co.zw By BO Staff Writer Yesterday during the launch of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) local government manifesto in Soweto, it was revealed that EFF is working with counter revolutionary forces to bring about …
by BO staff writer Late last year in Oxford University, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema unexpectedly unleashed a blistering criticism of two of Africa’s icons, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the late Nelson Mandela of South African. The attack on Mugabe has been explained by the fact that the EFF …