Despite African National Congress ANC leader Inkosi Albert Luthuli being under house arrest and constant surveillance by the apartheid government, he was able to hide documents in a secret basement under his house.
Luthulis daughter-in-law, Wilheminah Luthuli , testified in the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday that these documents were smuggled to the United States after his death.
She was testifying in the re-opened inquest into Luthulis death in 1967.
The initial inquest found that Luthuli was accidentally hit by a train, however, his family has rejected the finding.
Wilheminah Luthuli told the court that her father-in-law even had difficulty receiving his Nobel Peace Prize in Norway in 1961.