South Africa to reopen the death of the Nobel Prize holder

The South African Court is scheduled to re -examine the circumstances on the death of one of the most famous activists against the apartheid system, which was initially described as an accident.

In 1967, he ruled that President Albert Luthely was walking on a railway when a train shocked him and died after breaking his skull.

Activists and his family threw long doubts in the official version of the events, and said they welcomed the reopening of the investigation.

Lutley, who was at the time of his death was the leader of the African National Congress that was then placed (ANC), won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 on charges of leading the battle against the apartheid.

The African National Congress Party continued to lead the struggle against the rule of the white fly and reached power in 1994, following the first democratic elections.

The National Prosecution Authority (NPA) said it “will provide evidence before the court in an attempt to obtain the initial results of the death of the Luteuli president …. He did not say what this evidence is.

Nearly six decades ago, the initial investigation into the death of the Nobel Prize winner found that there is no evidence to reveal any criminal guilt by any of the railway employees in South Africa or anyone else, ”NPA said last week.

But activists suspect that the authorities have killed and covered him.

The grandson of Luthely, Albert Methonzi Luthely, told IOL News in South Africa that the family “welcomes the reopening of the investigation”, although now years after the death of “many people who were suspected of participating in the killing of my grandfather.”

He added: “We believe that TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Committee) allows many families of the victims to give pardon for the murderers of the apartheid,” referring to the post -apartheid process, where the perpetrators of violence in previous decades were encouraged to progress completely to their crimes.

At the time of his death, Lutheouli was not allowed to leave his residential area in Gottville – now in the province of Kawazolo Natal – or to participate in politics.

He was the first Nobel Peace Prize winner in South Africa. The prize was later awarded to three South Africa: Archbishop Descard Toto in 1984, Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk in 1993.

The Luthuli case is one of the two very expected investigations into the death of anti -eating figures on Monday. Other concerns are attached to lawyer Mlungisi Griffits Mxenge, who was killed in 1981.

He stabbed 45 times and his throat was a slit.

A year later, the investigation of his death failed to identify his killers, and after only nine years they were disclosed – when Botana Al -Luz Novimella confessed to killing Mxenge and seven other members of the African National Congress Party.

It was part of a sacrifice strike, or a controllement unit, which was detained and killed and killed by anti -bars activists.

Noufimella was convicted, with team leader Dirk Kotzi and David Chicalang, in 1997 for McCenge’s murder, but they were given a pardon by TRC before the completion of the criminal case.

In explaining the reopening of the Mxenge’s death last year, the Ministry of Justice said that this is due to the fact that the new evidence had appeared, indicating that “certain information” was not presented to TRC.

In South Africa, investigations are often looking to determine how a person dies and whether anyone should bear the responsibility for his death.