Luthuli family: Cops continued harassment after his death
The family of Chief Albert Luthuli says Special Branch police monitored and harassed the anti-apartheid activist before his death.
The first week of the fresh inquest into Luthuli's death wraps up in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.
Luthuli's daughter-in-law has recalled how apartheid Security Branch officers camped outside their Groutville home and closely monitored Luthuli's movements in the days before his death.
"They would come at any time like early in the morning or in the night and knock hard at the door. They wouldn't say what they were doing and what they were looking for."
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Wilhelmina, who has wrapped up two days of testimony, says police even turned up at her father-in-law’s funeral.
"I suppose to convince themselves that actually, this person was really gone."
At the time, the apartheid government said the ANC stalwart’s death was an accident, ruling that he was struck by a goods train in 1967.
However, his family believes he was murdered.
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