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Invisible Ink Leo Joubert Ch 5 Eye for an Eye
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I wake, but not with a start. The engine of the Datsun 120Y screams as Lena flogs it up the incline, stuck in second. Her foot is flat on the floor, but she can’t change gear. One hand, gripping the wheel, the other, hauling me through the gap between the front seats, pressing my bleeding head into her side.
It’s 1981, four years since Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko died in police custody. We’re not far from the place where he was arrested at a roadblock near Port Elizabeth, where he was beaten until his brain bled, where he was thrown in cuffs into the back of a police van and shipped off to a jail cell in Pretoria. The medical examiner’s report later found nothing untoward in his death.
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