Apartheid police assault killed Nobel laureate Luthuli, South Africa court rules

Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960

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.

But activists and his family had long cast doubt on the findings, and South Africa's government reopened the case this ye

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