A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death. The judgment on Thursday rejected a previous ruling that he died as a result of being hit by a train. The decision came after more than 50 years of suspicion that Luthuli was killed by apartheid police because of his leadership of the African National Congress that opposed white minority rule and it was covered up. The South African government has this year ordered several other new inquests into the apartheid-era deaths of political leaders and activists. Families have been calling for investigations for years.
