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Blackness still illegal in South Africa: What must be done?

Political report on the 2019 elections

The spectre of black nationalism is yet again knocking impatiently and violently at the foundations of settler colonialism in occupied Azania.
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2019 general elections threatened to let into bourgeois anti black parliament reincarnation of Bambatha and the Mau Mau all rolled into one.

Terror was unleashed in the hearts of the system's keepers and the beneficiaries of the mass murder of blacks in the last 400 years.

The genocide against us black people has never ended, never been acknowledged, and never been restituted. #BLFPoliticalReport

With appearence of BLF in our national political scene, the guilty were no longer at ease. They all prayed to their evil god: "please, BLF must not go to parliament". #BLFPoliticalReport

Not being sure whether their demented god would act upon their fears, they also actively instituted elaborate plans to stop the juggernaut of black nationalism. #BLFPoliticalReport

It was too late! The spirit was moved. What was left for the guilty was to participate in an open political fraud. They stole and destroyed the votes of BLF. We were robbed. This open robbery should have been anticipated and mitigated. #BLFPoliticalReport

@BLF_SouthAfrica his too much to bear for a parliamentary system driven by deception, ambition and money. #BLFPoliticalReport

@BLF_SouthAfrica is the nightmare that land thieves pray would never materialize since they set foot on our shores and turned us into slaves in our own land. They know this truth but hope that the victim never rises to accept its call and act upon it. #BLFPoliticalReport

That is why Steve Biko has taught us that "the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppresser is the mind of the oppressed". #BLFPoliticalReport

BLF is waking up those in a deep sleep who are hypnotised by colonial terrors which destroy the mind and the soul. The observation that, ‘whites understand BLF more than blacks do’ is true. #BLFPoliticalReport

Whiteness recognizes threats to itself from miles away. Blackness, real blackness, invokes suffocation and the end. Amargedon! #BLFPoliticalReport

The elections were a sham
It is now common cause to any fair minded person that the 2019 elections were not free and fair. At a substantive level the elections were rigged by money. #BLFPoliticalReport

White Monopoly Capital (WMC) panicked when it saw the visibility of BLF and our resolve, so it poured money into the elections campaigns of parties of WMC. #BLFPoliticalReport

It’s not disputed that the African National Congress (ANC) spent a billion rand in the 2019 elections and that both the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are said to have spent over R300 million in the said elections. #BLFPoliticalReport

Where did this money come from, if not from Stellenbosch and London? On the other hand, the elections cost the BLF not more than R50 000, half of which is not yet paid. Where is the fairness there?
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Media bias

Then there was the open media bias and negative propaganda against @BLF_SouthAfrica. It was relentless and sustained. The message, as intended, sowed doubt in the minds of the electorate. BLF was billed as an organization of hate and racism. #BLFPoliticalReport

The same stratcom strategy of labeling the liberation movement terrorist was used to dig a rift between the people and @BLF_SouthAfrica. This explains why they shut down ANN7. #BLFPoliticalReport

Lawfare

The media campaigns were not enough. Our organization was put under immense and extreme judicial pressure. The strategy of the enemy was to turn to "lawfare" as the key method to keep @BLF_SouthAfrica out of the elections.
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Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) received a record breaking over 20 complaints against BLF alone, including from DA & the ADeC. BLF responded to most of the complaints, as requested by the IEC. All the complaints were subsequently dismissed by the IEC.
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Land thieves used courts. Up until a day before elections we were in court. The court decision which declared our slogan "Land Or Death" hate speech, was delivered two days before the elections. Again this served to plant the idea that BLF is not electable #BLFPoliticalReport

A day before the elections, the weight of Patrice Motsepe was brought to bear against our movement. We believe it was a cynical calculated move to scare our people away from BLF. #BLFPoliticalReport

We saw that when Motsepe was accused of improperly benefitting from the independent power producers (IPPs), he didn't run to court. He instead had a meeting with his accusers and the accusations stopped. #BLFPoliticalReport

WMC knows that it can’t buy BLF. The same is true of its junior partners like Patrice Motsepe. The consequence of this reality is that these enemies of our people have only one option in dealing with BLF. It is to crush and destroy us. This is war! #BLFPoliticalReport

Bidvest’s role
Then there was the open stealing of votes and Bidvest inspired multiple voting. It’s a serious indictment on the electoral process that the government actually hired Bidvest as a service provider for the ink. The ink is a critical safety feature in the elections.

If anyone knows beforehand the ink is removable, then elections are seriously compromised. Bidvest is partly owned by the President and also our ideological foe Pravin Gordhan. These two are close to WMC and would therefore favour an outcome that serves WMC.
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We received enough evidence to satisfy ourselves that BLF votes were stolen. Often our votes were either not counted or turned into spoiled votes. However, we have taken the view that it is part of the enemy’s strategy. We don't expect to be treated fairly by our opponents.

The involvement of Bidvest in the elections simply meant that the parties of WMC were at an unfair advantage.
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RET is the minimum program of black nationalism

Attack on BLF and its vilification is part of the attack on RET. All RET forces are under attack. The show trial of Jacob Zuma is part of political assault on RET. All proponents of RET from inside ANC have emphasized blackness.

Thabo Mbeki is correct when he says that Jacob Zuma is trying to blacken the ANC with his call for black unity and land expropriation without compensation which are part of the RET agenda. #BLFPoliticalReport

We must remember that the ANC was started as a blacks only organization in 1912 - the African National Native Congress with the emphasis on "Native". #BLFPoliticalReport

ANC was captured in 1955 by whites and has ever since found itself torn between the black agenda of the Afrikanists (Lembede and Makiwane brothers) on the other hand, the white agenda of people like Joe Slovo and Derick Hanekom who openly oppose land return to black people.

RET is seen as a pro black program which threatens interests of WMC. It is for this reason that anyone who is seen as supporting RET is subjected to judicial attacks and media vilification. #BLFPoliticalReport

The unwarranted attacks on the Public Protector are part of the anti RET agenda which is essentially anti black. #BLFPoliticalReport

When analyzing spectre of black nationalism we have to factor in emergence of RET current inside ANC. The question is whether this RET current, which was essentially defeated in Nasrec, would fold under the pressure and threats of starvation marginalization bullying by judiciary?

What is our role in the further development of black nationalism inside the ANC and beyond? #BLFPoliticalReport

FF+ electoral growth is a response to @BLF_SouthAfrica
The growth of black nationalism embodied in BLF and its unapologetic black speech, coupled with its fierce independence from WMC, has frightened white interests into revealing their hand.
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The emergence of BLF has compelled the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) to respond with the open revival of White Nationalism. FF+ positioned itself as the authentic defender of white interests by taking the ‘slan terug’ (fight back) campaign directly to BLF.
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WMC together with the representatives of land thieves understood better than most black people that BLF in parliament would make the betrayal of the land question impossible. All the black parties in parliament would have been forced to address the land and economic question.

That is why the campaign to block @BLF_SouthAfrica from going to parliament was so intense.
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It’s interesting to observe how the WMC owned media has gone into a new campaign to erase BLF from the minds of the people - despite the over 20 000 voters who managed to scale the fraud and got counted for BLF. #BLFPoliticalReport

When the WMC media discusses the emergence of FF+, they avoid mentioning the name BLF. They instead lie and mention their favourite party of fake radicalism. #BLFPoliticalReport

White people abandoned the DA and voted for FF+. Black people were made to fear BLF. Just like under apartheid when majority of black people had internalized the propaganda of the apartheid regime that projected the liberation movement as a terrorist movement #BLFPoliticalReport

We also have this new challenge today: to liberate the minds of our people. How do we make black people love themselves and put themselves first? Right now, many black people genuinely think it’s racist to say "black first". #BLFPoliticalReport

Many find the motto "land or death" threatening. Many black people have internalized white interests and fears. Then, there are those who genuinely believe that black people can’t govern themselves and to this end they have lots of empirical evidence. #BLFPoliticalReport

BLF has forced DA to abandon the fake rainbow nonsense. Helen Zille has been jolted into action by the electoral fortunes of the FF+. BLF has forced whites to show their white agenda more openly. This development should make agitating for black agenda easier #BLFPoliticalReport

No one can claim anymore that the DA is not a party of white racism. Those who continue to make the DA their strategic partner must be exposed as helping the hand of white supremacy. #BLFPoliticalReport

There is one party in parliament right now
Exclusion of BLF from sixth parliament has ensured there is a one party dictatorship of WMC. There is currently no party which is representing the interests of black people in parliament. There is now a hegemony of parties of white power

First sitting of parliament debate was all congratulatory to President of the country, Cyril Ramaphosa. No more were any references made to "butcher of Marikana”. Ramaphosa was now "Comrade President" - even as he continues to cut jobs and refuses to budge on land expropriation.

They showed sickning reverence to the Lonmin man. However to provide a rhetorical cover for the right wing shift, there was mention of Stellenbosch by the Stellenbosch agents. Agents of Johann Rupert pretended to be against Rupert so as to continue the lie that they want change.

Parliament will continue to serve interests of WMC enact side irrelevant fights to entertain amuse the poor. We must repeat, like a stuck record, this message that there shall be no land expropriation without compensation amendments by parliament. How can WMC expropriate itself?

Lessons of 2019
1. If we enter the bourgeois electoral space, we must be ready to guard each and every vote cast in our favor. This is the biggest lesson. If there are no party agents, the votes will be stolen.
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2. We can only rely on votes of our members. Sympathy votes are important, but not decisive. This means that organisational structures must be built.
3. Media starved us at critical moments of elections and therefore we have to build and rely on our own alternative media channels

4. Money versus People: WMC is prepared to throw money in elections to secure victory for its parties. We have to counter this with people and clarity of purpose. We have to harness our people’s goodwill to fund the revolutionary program. It’s their revolution. They must fund it.

What must be done?
Main critical point of intervention is to addresss crisis of vision & ideological confusion amongst black people.

What is the vision of Black people in SA? We say RET is a minimum program of black unity towards realization of a society that puts blacks first.

In fact, more than ideological confusion, we have in general entered the era of "post ideology". Ideology doesn't matter anymore. That is why it’s possible that a party that proclaims Marxism and Leninism can go into political power sharing with parties of land thieves and WMC.

This post ideology dispensation is confirmation of the hegemony of the White Monopoly Capital agenda and ideology which in turn is threatened by black nationalism. #BLFPoliticalReport

The primary mode through which the post ideology politics manifests is through the anti corruption mantra. The discursive powers of the hegemonic ideological framework has ordained the corruption of the black political class as the central point of focus. #BLFPoliticalReport

This serves as a perfect deflection from the real source of exclusion of the black majority from the economic benefits accruing from the wealth of the nation. #BLFPoliticalReport

Anti corruption crusaders are essentially the enforcement army for the white supremacist economic and social order. Because WMC is in control of the main ideological apparatus which has hegemony, it determines who is corrupt & who must account for corruption #BLFPoliticalReport

White corruption doesn't count as corruption and therefore it is never punished. #BLFPoliticalReport

There are urgent tasks which we must carry out to build a fighting movement. Some of the key tasks are:

1. There must be 500 000 BLF members in good standing in the next five years. This means 100 000 each year.
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2. @BLF_SouthAfrica aims to become kingmakers in the metropolitan municipalities after the 2021 local government elections (LGE). We have designed an outline of a strategy. We must debate this, including how to fund that process.
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3. In September 2019 BLF must hold a policy conference.

4. In February 2020, when they open their parliament we must be there in action and numbers to demand land expropriation without compensation.
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5. We shall not wait for parliament to give blacks land or amend the constitution. @BLF_SouthAfrica must launch a People’s Land Return Program. On June 19, the day of the Land Act of 1913, we shall hold an Imbizo with the restitution claimants.
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6. Also any program of action (POA) must focus on black workers, black students, the unemployed black youth, squatters, victims of evictions, and the landless. We must not neglect the prisons anymore. #BLFPoliticalReport

7. We must focus on the liberation of the mind. We need systematic political education programs to advance Black Consciousness (BC). There must be a strong leadership building for BLF leaders. Then there must be an annual BC Festival from 2020. Launch a BC Summer School

8. We need to re-launch Vuka Darkie as a print copy and build the profile and reliability of Black Opinion (BO) as the online presence.

9. We must raise money to build this movement. This NCC shall give direction, given the real and present danger of attacks from WMC.

10. We must strengthen our Africa and black diaspora presence.

11. We must focus on defending black people. The Private Litigation Unit must now be priority. We must prioritize the establishment of the ‘Bambatha Shield’ to train our people in the use of weapons to fight crime.

I wish to thank the more than 20 000 voters who voted for our movement. More than 20k black voices call upon us to continue the struggle until total liberation. We shall not fail!- BLF President Andile Mngxitama
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To those who have been writing the obituary of BLF, we say it was all too premature. We are not only continuing but we are also going to unite black political parties. We are going to talk to Azania People’s Organization (Azapo), African People's Convention (APC), PAC & others

"If the landless wait for politicians, for the church or whites to do something about land, then we shall wait forever. Its up to the landless and their organisations to take action on the ground so as to speed up all the processes to regain the lost land. #BLFPoliticalReport

When land was taken from us, there was no law, no parliament, no talks of two third majority – the whites just took our land through force. We have to regain our land by any means necessary!"

Izwelethu!