BLF message on Sharpeville Day

Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by Black First Land First

Image: Robert Sobukwe

Black First Land First (BLF) says it’s Sharpeville Day! The ANC government wants to erase the name of Sobukwe and PAC from the day.

BLF calls for unity of all Black Consciousness and Pan Africanist organisations for the 2024 elections. We must build the Azanian Front on a clear minimum programme.

Mandela’s project has failed in the last 28 years. Now it’s the time for the Biko and Sobukwe option. We are still landless and blacks are at the bottom. That’s why we say Black First! Land First!

BLF asks that by the end of this year the Azanian Front must be called. We are ready. Our unity towards 2024 is the best tribute we can pay in honor of the memories of those who died on this day. We owe it to them. Only a Black Consciousness and Pan Afrikanist government can pay reparations to the families of those who were murdered.

Viva Sobukwe!
Viva Biko!
Izwelethu!

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee (NCC)
21 March 2023

Delivered in Sharpeville by the Treasurer General of BLF, Cde Thandiswa Yaphi

Contact Details
Black First Land First Mail:
[email protected]

Gandhi Baai
(Secretary General)
Cell: +27 73 565 8420
Mail: [email protected]

For media enquiries contact:
Kabelo Seagiso
(Head of Communications)
Cell: +27 63 548 2425

Employ the 716 000 graduates

Posted on March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 by Black First Land First

Image: Oupa Mokoena, African News Agency (ANA)

It’s a serious indictment on the ANC goverment that graduates are unemployed. It’s a serious matter that 716 000 graduates have applied for the R350 social relief of distress (SRD) grant. How many more graduates are sitting at home?

This is an urgent matter that can’t wait any longer. Black First Land First (BLF) shall call an imbizo of unemployed graduates to come up with a program of action to address this matter urgently.

There is a policy vacuum when it comes to unemployed graduates. These young people have carried out their part. The state must now come to the party.

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee (NCC)
18 March 2023

Contact Details
Black First Land First Mail:
[email protected]

Gandhi Baai
(Secretary General)
Cell: +27 73 565 8420
Mail: [email protected]

For media enquiries contact:
Kabelo Seagiso
(Head of Communications)
Cell: +27 63 548 2425

BLF says Hands Off EFF national shutdown

Posted on March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 by Black First Land First

Image: Oupa Mokoena, African News Agency (ANA)

The white ruling class and its right wing racist civil society partners are exposed. They support democratic rights only if they are congruent with their interests and agenda. The white opposition parties are anti democratic as well. The ruling party, the ANC, is always responsive to white fears. There is no need at all to mobilise the army against protest action on a holiday.

Black First Land First ( BLF) shall not join the shutdown but supports the right to protest. Our refusal to participate is based on our reading that Stellenbosch and London doesn’t want Ramaphosa anymore. Their call coincides with the interests of Stellenbosch that is the same force which has brought the energy crisis to justify the privatisation of Eskom and other state-owned entities.

The leading forces of the shutdown brought us here when they joined forces with imperialism to get rid of Jacob Zuma and the progressive black management core including Brian Molefe, Dudu Myeni, Hlaudi Motsoeneng .

Imperialism wants Ramaphosa gone, so too does Stellenbosch. Our actions must drive our own agenda. Having said that, BLF fully supports the democratic rights of EFF to protest. We must resist the creeping in of dictatorship to assure white fears. The revolution is coming but the shutdown is not that moment, so the reactionary forces must relax. The revolution shall be unled!

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee (NCC)
18 March 2023

Contact Details
Black First Land First Mail:
[email protected]

Gandhi Baai
(Secretary General)
Cell: +27 73 565 8420
Mail: [email protected]

For media enquiries contact:
Kabelo Seagiso
(Head of Communications)
Cell: +27 63 548 2425

BLF to open criminal case against SKG Africa in Pretoria

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Black First Land First

SKG Africa (Pty) Ltd is allegedly charging the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure R500 million a year for an empty building.

Black First Land First (BLF) has confirmed that the building formerly occupied by Stats SA has been standing empty for over eight years. The name of the building is Die Bruyn Building. It is located at the corner of Madiba and Thabo Sehume Street in Tshwane.

The case will be opened under the following details:

Date: 16 March 2023
Time: 12 noon
Venue: Brooklyn Police Station. 119 Duxbury Rd, Hillcrest, Pretoria.

A media briefing will subsequently be held outside the Brooklyn Police Station at 13h00.

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee (NCC)
15 March 2023

Contact Details

Black First Land First Mail: [email protected]
Gandhi Baai
(Secretary General)
Cell: +27 73 565 8420
Mail: [email protected]

For media enquiries contact:
Kabelo Seagiso
(Head of Communications)
Cell: +27 63 548 2425