I'm not black, I'm African! #KnowYourDa

The physically battered body of Bantu Stephen Biko lay in a mortuary near East London in South Africa 🇿🇦 at the time of his post-mortem, 700 miles from the place of his incarceration by the apartheid white security police, shortly after his death on 7 September 1977. As the South African government continued to propagate lies that Steve Biko had died while on hunger strike, an undercover journalist secretly took the photo of Biko's body and sent it to Britain. The photo bearing Biko's battered face confirmed to the world that the anti-apartheid student activist had been beaten to death while in prison. It later emerged that while in police custody, Biko was stripped naked, shackled to the wall, and severely beaten on the head by his interrogators. As a result, he suffered three brain lesions that resulted in a massive brain haemorrhage. According to an autopsy, an "extensive brain injury" had caused "centralisation of the blood circulation to such an extent that there had been intravasal blood coagulation, acute kidney failure, and uremia".

I HAVE REQUESTED THE MINISTER OF FINANCE TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE IRREGULARITIES IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS OF TEXTBOOKS FOR FOUNDATION PHASE

Terrible weekend for DA. Two ministers' departments in scandal AI fakes to draft AI policy has become a global story R285m for textbooks awarded to a company with no publishing history Both ministers are DA deputy federal chairs The buck stops with them, as with all ministers

Terrible weekend for DA. Two ministers' departments in scandal AI fakes to draft AI policy has become a global story R285m for textbooks awarded to a company with no publishing history Both ministers are DA deputy federal chairs The buck stops with them, as with all ministers

The Department of Basic Education awarded 26% of a R1.6bn textbook tender to Lighthouse Publishers (Pty) Ltd, a little-known firm with no track record, registered shortly after the tender was announced.

"South Africa differs from 'failed states' in one important aspect: we have a vibrant, competent, committed private sector. Whatever gov cannot do, the private sector can fix it tomorrow. If government gets out of the way, this country can turn on a tickey." — Christo Wiese