{"id":40249,"date":"2026-07-22T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40249"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:28:30","slug":"sas-luthuli-foundation-calls-for-history-rewrite","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-luthuli-foundation-calls-for-history-rewrite\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Luthuli Foundation calls for history rewrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Chief Albert Luthuli Foundation in South Africa (SA) is calling for history books, museums and public records to be updated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The foundation says the call is to reflect the true circumstances surrounding the death of the first African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The call comes as the foundation marks the 59th anniversary of Luthuli&#8217;s death and declares 2027 the Year of Luthuli.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It has launched a campaign to correct what it says are decades of inaccurate historical records.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The October 2025 ruling overturned the apartheid-era finding that Luthuli died after being struck by a train.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The KwaZulu-Natal Province court instead found that he died from a fractured skull and brain haemorrhage linked to an assault.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Luthuli served as the President of the African National Congress.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40250,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40249","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Chief Albert Luthuli Foundation","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40251,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40249\/revisions\/40251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}