Kenneth Kayilo Khumalo is a South African politician and civil servant who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2009, having been elected in the 2004 general election.[1] As of 2020, he worked at the provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in the Northern Cape government.[2]
Kenneth Khumalo | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 23 April 2004 – May 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
In 1985, Khumalo was one of the Upington 26 charged with participating in the murder of policeman Jetta Sethwala during an anti-apartheid protest in the township of Paballelo, Upington in the Cape Province. He was accused number one in the subsequent murder trial, which saw him and thirteen others convicted on the basis of the common purpose doctrine and sentenced to the death penalty.[2] He was on death row in May 1991 when the sentence was overturned on appeal.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ "General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 466, no. 2677. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 20 April 2004. pp. 4–95. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Former "Upington 26" prisoner remembered". GroundUp News. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ "Khumalo, Kenneth Kayilo". Truth Commission Special Report. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ "Upington 26". Truth Commission Special Report. Retrieved 11 April 2023.