Claims Chief Albert Luthuli committed suicide or was partially blind and deaf refuted

The apartheid government claimed Luthuli was hit by a goods train at Gledhow station on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal

16 April 2025 - 18:19 By MLUNGISI MHLOPHE-GUMEDE

The daughter-in-law of the late ANC president-general Chief Albert Luthuli denied claims he may had committed suicide in 1967...

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