AMCU is right – Malema & Ramaphosa must stop using Marikana

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Black First Land First

Black First Land First (BLF) agrees with the President of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), Comrade Union president Joseph Mathunjwa, that both Cyril Ramaphosa and Julius Malema must stop abusing the Marikana massacre for their narrow interests. It is clear that the two old friends are now using the massacre, engineered by Cyril Ramaphosa, to rekindle their political romance.

There is a drive to whitewash the Marikana massacre and to unjustifiably absolve Cyril Ramaphosa of guilt. This means that there will be no real justice. He will get away without fully accounting for the mass killings of workers for profits and escaping the appropriate penalty for his sins, including the payment of reparations. We have seen how Malema has changed his tune on Ramaphosa. He has moved from calling him the ‘murderer of Marikana’ to declaring him as the ‘president who must be respected’.

Mathunjwa is correct when he says:

“The EFF and the ANC have no organisational rights in that mine, therefore, it is very wrong to suggest that the EFF is the gatekeeper for the State President to meet the widows. Those widows are organised, and they are under the banner of AMCU. We are the only trade union there”.

BLF is encouraged by the principled stance of AMCU. We have to always remember that Ramaphosa called for the “concomitant action” against the workers in service of the interests of Lonmin, which is a London based mining house. We must also not forget that Julius Malema has powerful handlers in London – Lord Robin Renwick, amongst others. So the bromance between Mokone and Matamela is a London project signed on the blood of the Marikana workers.

BLF calls for full disclosure of the truth from Ramaphosa on how Lonmin has used him against black workers. Furthermore, we encourage Ramaphosa to approach the legitimate organizations representing the workers and their families to ask for forgiveness as well as pay reparations for the brutal murder of their loved ones for profit.

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee (BLF NCC)
19 April 2018

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Ramaphosa, stop hating President Zuma

Posted on April 15, 2018April 15, 2018 by Black First Land First

Black First Land First (BLF) is outraged by the vindictive and hateful behaviour of Cyril Ramaphosa towards the People’s President, Comrade Zuma. Ramaphosa has withdrawn the appeal, previously instituted by the Presidency under Zuma, to overturn the decision of the High Court including the equally vindictive and hateful R10 million cost order imposed on Zuma in his personal capacity.

The said High Court cost order was part of the finding in the application where the Presidency took the state capture report of the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, on review and asked that it be set aside. The cost order was made a personal responsibility of Cde Zuma to comply with, despite the fact that he instituted the application in the interests of the state and accordingly in his capacity as the State President. Furthermore, there were no compelling reasons for such a punitive order of cots to imposed on him. The judiciary has allowed itself to be used for political reasons. We saw the same shockingly harsh cost order being imposed against the Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mhkwebane, after she ruled that ABSA must pay back the money that it stole from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

The timing of the withdrawal of the appeal by Ramaphosa is also instructive. The “New Dawn” pro white monopoly capital (WMC) hateful forces of Ramaphosa waited until the court day to unleash their hatred towards Zuma.

WMC hates Zuma because he is the father of radical economic transformation (RET). But the masses of our people love President Zuma. BLF calls on Ramaphosa to stop his hateful project against Zuma and to reinstate the appeal to overturn the absurd ruling.

Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee of (BLF NCC)

15 April 2018

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Cyril’s IPPs benefit US companies but harm black workers

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Black First Land First

The United States (US) Embassy has congratulated an American company which was awarded one of the renewable energy deals at Eskom on 4 April this week. The speed at which the Minister of Energy, Jeff Radebe, moved to sign agreements with 27 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) shows that white monopoly capital (WMC) has captured the state. The shocking truth is that the majority of the companies getting cuts out of the R1.4 trillion deal are part of WMC and to this end are US and European companies.

President Zuma was persecuted by the racist civil society organizations and the London controlled political parties that demonized the nuclear deal on the basis its supposed non affordability. It is now clear that WMC and imperialism wanted the deal for themselves in the form of IPPs

On Wednesday the US government, through its embassy in Pretoria congratulated Solar Reserve for clinching one of the lucrative contracts. It is now evident that those who shouted the loudest about state capture were only unhappy because they believed the state was getting out of their grip.

The IPPs will cost 40 000 jobs! These are black people who will suffer. This is the “new dawn” of Cyril Ramaphosa. The only stumbling block to this mass looting by WMC was President Zuma. Now he is gone from office and the floodgates are open.

Black First Land First (BLF) supports the call by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) that Cyril Ramaphosa must instruct Jeff Radebe to stop the IPPs without further ado. We call on society to mobilize to stop the unaffordable IPPs.

BLF reiterates its call for the racist, sexist Mark Lamberti to be removed from the Eskom Board of Directors, forthwith.

It is clear that if we don’t stop Cyril Ramaphosa, before we know it the country will be gone completely to Europe and the US.
Issued by the National Executive Committee of Black First Land First (BLF NCC)

7 April 2018

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Ramaphosa must pay lobola and damages

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Black First Land First

Black First Land First (BLF) calls on the Deputy President of the country, Cyril Ramaphosa, to stop the hypocrisy that seeks to criminalise or stigmatise his lovers.

Cyril Ramaphosa must take responsibility for his actions. To this end he must (for the first time) show honesty by acknowledging his multiple relationships and ask for forgiveness. Moreover, he must pay lobola and damages where applicable.

Cyril Ramaphosa has turned an event which could have been handled with leadership and integrity into a scandal. In the African setting, polygamy – a practice where a man has more than one wife – is allowed.

Cyril Ramaphosa is rejecting his African identity. He is hypocritical and is demonstrating the same sense of disregard towards the African people as he did in relation to Marikana.

It is not a sin to marry many women as is evidenced by President Jacob Zuma having many wives. What is a scandal is to engage in multiple secret relationships and to denounce, as Ramaphosa does, the said relationships as being something evil.

Ramaphosa is also on record for rejecting the culture of “Sugar Daddies”. How hypocritical is this when Ramaphosa himself has become the King of Sugar Daddies in South Africa? To correct his wrongdoings, Ramaphosa must go to the families of these young women that he has maintained as secret lovers, negotiate lobola and pay damages. Yes, Ramaphosa must do the right thing – he must do the African thing!

Ramaphosa must not hide behind the Courts by employing it to try and interdict the media from publishing what they have now discovered – his multiple secret relationships. Ramaphosa must show integrity by asking for forgiveness from the nation and from those close to him. Furthermore, he must acknowledge his own role in the scandal that he faces today. But Ramaphosa evidently lacks contrition and refuses to take responsibility for his actions.

He shows, through his attempt to silence the media, that he is singularly not fit to be President of this country. Ramaphosa’s refusal to acknowledge his multiple relationships indicates that he is not a man of integrity.

This is reminiscent to what he did in Marikana. He has not yet fully apologised nor paid reparations for his primary role in the mass murder of our people in that area.

The difficulties that Ramaphosa is facing today can be seen as the bones of the Marikana workers rebelling against a man who called the police instead of honestly negotiating for a living wage for those who made him super rich.
Issued by the National Coordinating Committee of Black First Land First (BLF NCC)

2 September 2017

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Lindsay Maasdorp
(National Spokesperson)
Cell: +27 79 915 2957

Brian Tloubatla
(Deputy National Spokesperson)
Cell: +27 82 216 7664