Witness At Luthuli Inquest Suggests The Train Story May Not Be True

A witness who was a clerk at Stanger Hospital where the late former ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli was admitted after he was reportedly hit by a goods train in 1967, has testified at the re-opened inquest in Pietermaritzburg High Court.

Mahomed Manjoo informed the court that after noticing that it was Chief Luthuli who was being checked in at the hospital unaccompanied, he alerted some local ANC leaders.

The Luthuli family wants the court to overturn findings of the initial apartheid era inquest that ruled Luthulis death as an accident.

Evidence leader Advocate Anne Chuene cross-examined Manjoo.

Chuene: Is there anything extra ordinary that you may have noticed about his clothing, the condition of his clothing?