Anc Never Believed Luthuli Died In A Train Accident: Radebe

The African National Congresss ANC Jeff Radebe has testified before the reopened inquest into the death of Chief Albert Luthuli that the party has never believed that Luthuli died in a train accident.

Radebe, the ANCs Provincial Task Team Convener in KwaZulu-Natal, is testifying at the inquest in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on behalf of the party.

Luthuli died in July 1967, after he was reportedly struck by a goods train. The initial inquest ruled that his death was an accident.

Radebe believes the Apartheid government was threatened by Luthulis political influence and leadership in the liberation struggle within the ANC.

The dynamic and effective leadership of Chief Luthuli changed the ANC forever. From a conservative organisation in 1912 characterised by representations, to a radical ANC of the Defiance Campaign from 1952 culminating in the decision to embark on the armed struggle in 1961, Chief Luthuli was regarded by the apartheid state as a danger to it. His overriding influence amongst the people across the colour line, his international prestige, including being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the imminent start of the war in Zimbabwe by both ANC and ZAPU was the final straw that made the apartheid regime take the decision to end his life. There is no other reasonable explanation for this gravely dastardly act of savagery as will be convincingly articulated by professional Doctors who painstakingly show the real medical causes of the death of this great Son of the Soil, a Man of the People.