South Africa: inquest into death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli re-opened

South Africa is re-examining the circumstances around the death of Nobel Laureate Chief Albert Luthuli, according to a statement by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa.

Luthuli, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for his role in the fight against apartheid, died in 1967 in what was initially reported as an accident.

That year, an inquest ruled that Luthuli was struck by a train and fractured his…