The Pietermaritzburg high court has declared the late ANC president-general chief Albert Luthuli was beaten to death by apartheid police and did not die after being struck by a goods train in 1967.
Delivering her judgement on the reopened inquest into Luthulis death on Thursday, judge Nompumelelo Radebe set aside a ruling by the late Stanger magistrate CI Boswell, saying evidence presented revealed he was murdered.
Evidence presented by locomotive and simulation experts as well as investigating officers showed there was no train accident.