29-05-2025
Luthuli 'assault' eyewitness to take witness stand on Monday
The reopened inquest into the death of ANC president-general Chief Albert Luthuli heard evidence his family was forced to flee their house in 1970 due to constant harassment by the special branch.
His daughter Dr Albertina Luthuli, 93, told the Pietermaritzburg high court on Wednesday the family went into hiding from 1970 and returned home in 1991.
She said the abuse by the special branch continued even after her father died in 1967.
'Members of the special branch continued to harass us even though our father had died which forced the family to go into hiding,' she said.
Albertina, who was on the witness stand for three days, finished her evidence on Wednesday. She said the family had believed her father was killed by someone on a train.
