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ANC leaders together with Chief Albert Luthuli and Griffiths Mxenge’s family attend the re-opening of the inquests into their deaths at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal on April 14, 2025.
Former late African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli’s daughter-in-law has described how the apartheid security police closely monitoring their home.
Wilhelmina Luthuli testified in the re-opened inquest into Chief Luthuli’s death in 1967 at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday.
She also testified that important evidence was not presented in the original inquest.
Wilhelmina believes this was an attempt to hide the apartheid government’s involvement in his death.
The original inquest found that a goods train had hit Chief Luthuli in Groutville on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.
However, the deceased’s family has rejected the finding.
Wilhelmina says she had no doubt that apartheid security police had been closely watching their home.
She says, “One would wake up and find a car standing near the hedge. Policemen, black and white, would be seated in the vehicle just watching our home. If we had a visitor at home, a few minutes later a Special Branch police vehicle would be parked outside. There was no doubt that we were being watched.”
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