Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has announced the inquest into the death of former ANC president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli will be reopened -- 57 years after his death.
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola, acting on the recommendation of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), has decided to reopen inquests into the apartheid-era deaths of Chief Albert Luthuli, Griffiths Mxenge and Booi Mantyi.
"With these inquests, we open very real wounds which are more difficult to open 30 years into our democracy, but nonetheless, the interest of justice can never be bound by time; the truth must prevail," Lamola said on Tuesday night.
Media StatementDate: 13 May 2024Re-Opening of Inquests into the deaths of Chief Albert Luthuli, Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge and Mr Booi MantyiThe Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Mr @RonaldLamola, has accepted and acted on recommendations from the National... pic.twitter.com/9UqZNyiQQN-- Chrispin Phiri 🇿🇦🇵🇸 (@Chrispin_JPhiri) May 13, 2024
Luthuli, a renowned anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died on 21 July 1967. The official report stated that he was hit by a train near Gledthrow station, Groutville, KwaZulu-Natal.
He was Africa's first Nobel laureate, in 1960, and was president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 1952 until his death.
In September 1967, an inquest held by the apartheid regime at the Magistrates' Court in Stanger, in the district of Lower Tugela, found the evidence...
