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Chief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
21 July 1967

Chief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville

On 21 July 1967, Chief Albert Luthuli died after he was struck by a train on a railway bridge close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger,…