South Africa to reopen the investigation into the death of the Nobel laureate

The South African court must review the circumstances surrounding the death of one of the most famous campaigns against the racist system of Apartheid, which was originally described as accidental.

The 1967 investigation has ruled that boss Albert Lutuli is walking along the railway when he was hit by a train and died after breaking his skull.

Activists and his family have long asked the official version of the events and said they were welcoming the investigation of the investigation.

Lutuli, who during his death was the leader of the then forbidden African National Congress (AnC), won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for heading the fight against apartheid.

Anc continued to fight white minority management and came to power in 1994, after the first democratic elections.

The National Prosecutor’s Office (NPA) said it “will present evidence to the court in an attempt to have the initial findings in the death of the Chief Lutuli … canceled.” She did not say what this evidence was.

Nearly six decades ago, the initial investigation into the death of Nobel Laureate found that there was no evidence to reveal some criminal guilt on the part of one of the South African railway staff or someone else, “NPA said last week.

But the campaigns suspected that the authorities had killed him and covered him.

The grandson of Lutuli, Albert Mtunzi Lutuli, told the South Africa news website that the family “welcomed the re -opening of the investigation”, although it is now years after the death of “many people we suspect we are in the murder of my grandfather.”

“We believe that TRC (a committee on truth and reconciliation) leaves many victims of victims, giving amnesty to Apartheid killers,” he added, citing the process after Apartheid, in which the perpetrators of violence in previous decades were encouraged to go out.

During his death on Lutuli, he was not allowed to leave his residential area in Gruutville – now in the province of Quazulu -Natal – or to participate in politics.

He was the first winner in South Africa in the Nobel Peace Prize. Later, the award was awarded to three other South Africans: Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984 and Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk in 1993.

The Lutuli case is one of the two long -awaited investigations into the death of the antiparty figures again on Monday. The other refers to the Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge lawyer, which was killed in 1981.

He was stabbed 45 times and his throat was cut.

An investigation into his death a year later failed to identify his murderers, and only nine years later, they were revealed -when Butana Almond Nofmela acknowledged the murder of Mxenge and seven other members of the ANC.

He was part of a hidden hit square or a rebellion unit that retained and kills activists against apartheid.

Nofmela, along with the commander of the Dirk Kotetse and David Tsikalang, were found in 1997. Guilty of Maxsej’s murder, but amnesty of TRC was provided before the criminal case was completed.

Explaining the re -opening of the investigation into Mxenge’s death last year, the Ministry of Justice said it was because new evidence emerged, suggesting that “certain critical information” was not presented to TRC.

In South Africa, investigations often look to determine how a person has died and whether one should be responsible for their death.