News24 | Vibrant and fit: Family challenge claims about Chief Luthuli's health before his death

News24 | Vibrant and fit: Family challenge claims about Chief Luthuli's health before his death

The reopened inquest into the 1967 death of ANC leader Chief Albert John Luthuli will resume in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday.

Luthuli did not commit suicide, daughter-in-law tells inquest

Wilhelmina Luthuli also rejects claims that former ANC president-general was partially deaf and blind

Claims Chief Albert Luthuli committed suicide or was partially blind and deaf refuted

The apartheid government claimed Luthuli was hit by a goods train at Gledhow station on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal

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The NPA is presenting evidence in the Pietermaritzburg High Court to have the initial findings into the death of iconic anti-apartheid figure and former ANC president, Chief Albert Luthuli, overturned. LIVESTREAM:

'Chief Albert Luthuli was neither half-blind nor deaf'

There was a turn of events at the Chief Albert Luthuli inquest after his daughter-in-law Velemina Luthuli, rubbished claims made by a newspaper that Luthuli was “half blind” prior to his death. On Wednesday, Luthuli told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that her father-in-law was not of poor health. She disagreed with the newspaper that described him as half blind. “Yes, he did undergo an eye operation, but his eyesight was reasonably good. In th…