Nelson Mandela's great grandson, Mayibuye Mandela, has used Mandela Day to call on black people to support Andile Mngxitama's Black First Land First (BLF).

This comes after the controversial organisation made an application for leave to appeal the decision by the Electoral Commission (IEC) to deregister it as a political party. The IEC this week agreed with the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) that the BLF should be deregistered as it excluded white people from membership.

The BLF immediately applied for leave to appeal the IEC ruling.

On Thursday, Mayibuye Mandela's Vukani Community Development Organisation called for black solidarity against the BLF deregistration.

Vukani is a pro-black nonprofit organisation started and chaired by Mayibuye Mandela to fund development projects in the black community and black political parties such as the BLF.