South African court rules anti-Apartheid icon Albert Luthuli was murdered, not killed in accident

In South Africa, a major historical revelation: a court has ruled that anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli was murdered by members of the apartheid-era police, not killed in a train accident as officials claimed nearly six decades ago.

The judge rejected the findings of the original 1967 inquiry and named seven men, including railway workers and members of the special police branch as those responsible or complicit. Their whereabouts…