Lamola reopens inquest into Chief Albert Luthuli’s death
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has ordered a reopening of the inquest into the death of renowned anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli.
The inquest, 57 years after Luthuli’s death, follows a recommendation from the National Prosecuting Authority.
Official reports state that he was hit by a train near the Gledthrow station in KwaZulu-Natal.
Inquests into the deaths of lawyer and anti-apartheid activist Griffiths Mxenge and civic leader Booi Mantyi will also be reopened.
The Justice Ministry’s Chrispin Phiri says the first inquest did not consider certain mathematical and scientific principles.
"The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Mr Ronald Lamola, has accepted and acted on recommendations from the National Prosecuting Authority to re-open inquests into the deaths of Chief Albert Luthuli, Mr Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge and Mr Booi Mantyi.
"With these inquests, we open very real wounds, which are more difficult to open 30 years into our democracy. Nonetheless, the interest of justice can never be bound by time, and the truth must prevail."
Phiri says the Judge President of the KZN High Court will be approached to reopen the inquests.
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