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1 week ago |
sabcnews.com | Fanele Mhlongo
An expert on steam trains, Les Labuschagne will continue with his testimony today in the re-opened inquest into the death of former African National Congress (ANC) president, Chief Albert Luthuli in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal. Yesterday, Labuschagne poked holes in the statement of the train driver, Stephanus Albertus Lategan in the first inquest in 1967. That inquest found that Luthuli was accidentally hit by a train. Labuschagne helped to reconstruct the crash.
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2 weeks ago |
sabcnews.com | Fanele Mhlongo
The Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal has heard that the late former African National Congress (ANC) president, Chief Albert Luthuli, was sometimes assisted by the family of his employee to hold secret meetings during the liberation struggle. This has been revealed by the employee’s daughter, Nozizwe kaMabaso-Mhlongo, who was testifying before the reopened inquest into Luthuli’s death. Her father Stimela Mabaso worked for Luthuli at his store.
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2 weeks ago |
sabcnews.com | Fanele Mhlongo
A witness who was a clerk at Stanger Hospital where the late former ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli was admitted after he was reportedly hit by a goods train in 1967, has testified at the re-opened inquest in Pietermaritzburg High Court. Mahomed Manjoo informed the court that after noticing that it was Chief Luthuli who was being checked in at the hospital unaccompanied, he alerted some local ANC leaders.
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2 weeks ago |
sabcnews.com | Fanele Mhlongo
The daughter of a man who used to work at the shop of the former ANC president, Chief Albert Luthuli, has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that her family used to be harassed by Apartheid-era police due to their close ties with Luthuli. Nozizwe KaMabaso-Mhlongo is testifying before the re-opened inquest into Luthuli’s death. The family wants the court to overturn findings of the initial inquest that ruled Luthuli’s death an accident.
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3 weeks ago |
sabcnews.com | Fanele Mhlongo
The Director of the Luthuli Museum, Brian Xaba, has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that they have provided investigators with sufficient material about the life and death of former African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli. Xaba was testifying before the reopened inquest into Luthuli’s death. Luthuli died in July 1967, reportedly after he was struck by a goods train.
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