South Africa Reminds BBC: 'Apartheid' Means What You Think It Means
A South African court has finally ruled that anti-apartheid hero Albert Luthuli was likely killed by state security forces in 1967, overturning the original 'accident' verdict. The BBC dutifully reports on this truth surfacing 57 years later, as if the state machine that routinely jailed, tortured, and murdered Black leaders of liberation movements would somehow stop short of eliminating a Nobel
Peace Prize winner. (Perhaps they were just hoping he'd 'slip' on a train track.) This isn't a simple cold case; it's a stark reminder that regimes built on oppression rarely allow their critics to expire peacefully of natural causes. It’s a pattern we see repeated globally, where inconvenient deaths reshape narratives and erase challenges to state power. When will we learn that 'accidents'
involving dissidents are often just state-sponsored euphemisms for assassination?