Cape Town – White-owned monopoly capital is to blame for the storm that raged across the Western Cape this week, Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama has said.
Mngxitama was implicated in the #Guptaleaks last week, for allegedly having asked then-Oakbay CEO Nazeem Howa to fund his party. He seemed pretty convinced about who was responsible for Wednesday's storm that affected thousands of lives.
"It may strike many as an outlandish claim that the Cape Storms are a direct product of global capitalism and its local representatives we know as white monopoly capital," he wrote in an opinion piece on Thursday.
"Truth is for the last 500 years or so, capitalists have not just destroyed people through the long holocaust of the cross Atlantic slavery where they came and captured people as if we were animals to enslave.
"At the same time for profits, the same evil forces assaulted nature. What we see today is the ecological costs of capitalism and racism."
Mngxitama acknowledged that "there were storms before capitalism and racism", but "humans understood their range and quite rage (sic)".