US EditionNew Inquest Rules South African Nobel Laureate Albert Luthuli Was Beaten to Death in 1967
The ruling names seven apartheid-era officials as responsible for Luthuli's death by assault, overturning the original inquest's train accident conclusion.
- A judge ruled that the anti-apartheid hero Albert Luthuli died as a result of assault by police in 1967, setting aside an earlier inquest finding that he was killed in a train accident.
- Luthuli, the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was the leader of the then-banned African National Congress at the time of his death.
- The judge named seven men as having committed or been complicit in Luthuli's murder, and the ruling was welcomed by Luthuli's family and the ANC as correcting a long-standing distortion of history.
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Apartheid police killed Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli, rules South Africa court 55 years after his death
A South African judge has overturned the 1967 finding that Albert Luthuli’s death was accidental, with his family and the ANC hailing the ruling as long-overdue justice for the anti-apartheid icon
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New inquest rules South African Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli was beaten to death in 1967
A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death.
Murder instead of accident: In South Africa, the cause of death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli has been refuted. He was not - as the authorities claim - captured by a train in 1967, but killed by the police of the apartheid regime, a court in the city of Pietermaritzburg declared according to a report of the news portal "The South African".
South African court rules anti-Apartheid icon Albert Luthuli was murdered, not killed in accident
In South Africa, a major historical revelation, a court has ruled that anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli was murdered by members of the apartheid-era police, not killed in a train accident as officials claimed nearly six decades ago.
South Africa: Justice Committee Chairperson Welcomes New Inquest Finding On Chief Luthuli's Death
Press Release - The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr Xola Nqola, has welcomed the ruling by the KwaZulu-Natal High Court that set aside the 1967 inquest finding into the death of former African National Congress (ANC) President, Chief Albert Luthuli - now ruling he died at the hands of the Apartheid police.
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