Radebe Objects To 1967 Luthuli Inquest Magistrates Letter

The Convenor of the African National Congress' ANC Provincial Task Team in KwaZulu-Natal KZN, Jeff Radebe, has objected to a letter written by then Magistrate CI Boswell in 1967 to the Secretary of Justice, just a week before he was to preside over an inquest into the death of former party President Chief Albert Luthuli.

The Pietermaritzburg High Court is currently hearing the re-opened inquest into Luthulis death.

The court heard that, in his letter, Boswell tried to prevent the initial inquest from ever being heard in court.

For the past 57 years, the ANC and the Luthuli family have been disputing that he was struck by a goods train at Groutville, on KZN's North Coast.

They believe that he was murdered by the apartheid government to silence him.