They are not driven by political ideology. They basically fall under the Campus cults with young members.They emerged in the 1970s and were originally known as the Neo Black Movement. The group also has a strong presence in Italy where authorities there arrested several members this year, alleging the group works closely with the Camorra, one of the biggest Italian mafia groups, in other illicit activities including the drug trade and human trafficking. The Black Axe group is a notorious cult group in Nigeria. Law-enforcement sources told TimesLIVE that the Black Axe has a strong presence in SA where members often marry South Africans to get residency or citizenship, making it easier to access countries including Canada, the US, the UK and Germany. However, it was soon labelled a cult and banned under Nigerian law after it became synonymous with criminal activity globally.
The Neo-Black Movement of Africa is a name interchangeably used for the mafia-style organisation that started on university campuses in Nigeria in the 1970s.īlack Axe positioned itself as an organisation for the liberation of black people around the world. The scams are sophisticated and have highly organised Nigerian syndicate members, operating mainly from the Table Bay area along Cape Town’s west coast, posing as wealthy pensioners looking for love. The Black Axe members arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning are also alleged to have scammed companies out of millions of rand using a business email compromise scam. The Sunday Times previously reported on SA victims of the group, some of whom were fleeced out of their life’s savings and even their entire pensions.
These were allegedly perpetrated by members of the group who used dating sites to meet elderly men and women from around the world who were either widowed or divorced, and scamming them out of their money.
The group is believed to be behind hundreds of thousands of “romance scams”. The founder of the Black Axe “Cape Town Zone” was among those arrested, TimesLIVE sources said.
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