{"id":29947,"date":"2025-10-31T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29947"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:01:14","slug":"south-africa-court-rules-apartheid-police-assault-killed-nobel-laureate-albert-luthuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/south-africa-court-rules-apartheid-police-assault-killed-nobel-laureate-albert-luthuli\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa court rules Apartheid police assault killed Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A South African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of an “assault” by apartheid police, overturning decades of claims that it was an accident.<\/b><\/p>\n

An inquest held under the apartheid government concluded that Luthuli, the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died after being struck by a freight train while walking along a railway line.<\/p>\n

But activists and his family had long cast doubt on the findings, and South Africa’s government reopened the case this year.<\/p>\n

A judge on Thursday ruled that the anti-apartheid hero died as a result of a fractured skull and a cerebral haemorrhage associated with an assault. His family has welcomed the judgement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Luthuli, who at the time of his death was the leader of the then-banned African National Congress (ANC), won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for spearheading the fight against apartheid.<\/p>\n

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