The African National Congress ANC Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri says the ANC and its allied organisations are heartened by the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority NPA to reopen the inquests into the deaths of former President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli, who died under mysterious circumstances, and activist and lawyer Griffiths Mxenge.
The two inquests are due to get under way in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
Bhengu-Motsiri says she does not criticise the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but points out that some families did not get closure and must be afforded the opportunity to achieve this.
Mxenge was brutally murdered in Umlazi, south of Durban, in 1981. While three former members of the apartheid-era Vlakplaas security police were eventually implicated and faced trial, they were granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission before any sentencing was handed down.
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