The boy who allegedly witnessed the incident which possibly led to the death of former African National Congress (ANC) president Inkosi Albert Luthuli in 1967, has been identified as Mbhemu Myandu.  

This was revealed at the re-opened inquest into Luthuli’s death in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. 

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Luthuli’s family wants the court to overturn findings of the original apartheid era inquest that ruled Luthuli’s death as an accident. 

The initial findings indicated that Luthuli died after allegedly being struck by a goods train in Groutville, KwaZulu-Natal.  

The State has informed the court that it has managed to locate the boy’s elder sister, who is now 84-years-old. 

The boy disappeared shortly after the incident in 1967.

Advocate Humphrey Ngcobo read a sworn affidavit of investigator Thomas Steyn, who interviewed the boy’s elder sister.

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