Luthuli's Grandson Disputes Train Driver's Account At Inquest

The grandson of the late African National Congress ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the explanation given by the train driver surrounding his grandfathers death is contradictory.

Mthunzi Luthuli is continuing with his testimony, which he did not conclude last week, before the reopened inquest into Chief Luthulis death .

Luthuli died in July 1967, after he was reportedly struck by a goods train in Groutville, KwaZulu-Natal.

The family wants the court to overturn the findings of the original inquest that ruled Luthulis death an accident.

A visibly frustrated Mthunzi lashed out at the ANC over the delays in the reopening of the Inquest into his grandfathers death. There was a deal between the Nationalist government and the ANC not to prosecute these cases, he says.