The family’s statement comes after the Justice Department announced the reopening of the inquests into the deaths of Chief Luthuli and Griffiths Mxenge.

Chief Luthuli, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former African National Congress President, was killed in a train crash in 1967.

Mxenge, a prominent Human Rights lawyer, was murdered in Umlazi near Durban in 1981.

The late Chief’s grandson, Sandile Luthuli says, “It’s for the correction of the historical record and that will hopefully debunk the myth around the existence of some mysterious train accident and to unravel the historical conundrum about one of the country’s revered leaders.”

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