Npa Reopens Inquests Into Deaths Of Luthuli, Mxenge

The inquests into the deaths of ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli and human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge will be reopened in the Pietermaritzburg High Court next Monday.

Luthuli who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 was a banned person when he was allegedly struck by a goods train in Groutville north of Durban in 1967.

The first inquest found no criminal culpability on anyones part.

Mxenge was brutally stabbed to death in Umlazi south of Durban in 1981.

Three members of the security polices notorious Vlakplaas unit were tried for his murder years later but were granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC before they could be sentenced.