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A South African court ruled Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli was beaten to death in 1967, overturning the decades-old finding he was hit by a train.

The court found apartheid police’s Special Branch killed him, acting with railway employees — ending more than 50 years of suspicion by his family and supporters.

The government reopened the inquest as part of efforts to investigate high-profile apartheid-era deaths that were allegedly covered up by authorities at the time.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — 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, and it rejected a previous findin

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