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The South African government is revisiting the circumstances surrounding the 1967 death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli, decades after it was declared an accident.
In a statement, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said the case is being re-examined amid longstanding doubts from Luthuli’s family and anti-apartheid activists.
Luthuli, a prominent figure in the struggle against apartheid and then-president of the banned African National Congress (ANC), was reportedly struck by a train while walking along a railway line. An inquest at the time ruled it accidental, but questions around that conclusion have persisted.
Authorities are also reopening the case of Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge, an anti-apartheid lawyer who was brutally murdered in 1981. Although three men were convicted nearly a decade later, all were granted amnesty before sentencing.
“The NPA and its partners will endeavour to address the atrocities of the past and assist in providing closure to the families of the victims of these crimes,” the department said.
These efforts are part of a broader push to revisit unsolved or disputed apartheid-era cases that continue to cast a shadow over South Africa’s past.
