An expert on steam trains has highlighted several inconsistencies in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in the version of events surrounding the death of ANC leader, inkosi Albert Luthuli, as was presented in the first inquest in 1967.
Les Labuschagne poked holes in the statements of three key witnesses in the original inquest: the train driver, Stephanus Albertus Lategan, fireman, Daniel Lessing Greyling, and the conductor, Pieter Francois Van Wyk.
The first inquest found that Luthuli was accidentally hit by a train.
Labuschagne helped to reconstruct the crash.
"For the impact at 40 km/h, you wouldnt see a person lying there. You would see pieces of a body, lying on a walkway various distances," he says.