10 October 2012
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape Province is in mourning of the revolutionary and well lived life of Cde Thokozane Khumalo. We deep our revolutionary red flag down in honor of one of our Commissars, combatant of Umkhonto Wesizwe, SACP cadre till the end and the true committed leader.
Tata Khumalo was born in 1944 in the Province of KwaZulu Natal in a village of Emahlabathini. He felt the pain of the brutal apartheid capitalism and became an activist of the liberation movement; he later joined the ANC armed wing, Umkhonto Wesizwe in the early 1980s; which he served diligently and participated in many operations in an attempt to overthrow the brutal apartheid regime and free the South African populace.
He was later taken to a military training in Zimbabwe and later deployed in Russia for further training; upon coming back from Russia he then served in the ANC military headquarters a. Tata Khumalo then went to France to be trained as a commissar before working with and for O.R. Tambo in London.
After the 1994 political breakthrough he returned home and served the structures of our party in political education. He came to work in the Skenjana Roji District of the party in the political education and training unit. One of the outstanding works he has done was to write an induction manual for the district.
Tata Khumalo’s last activity was when he gave message of support to the South African Municipal workers (SAMWU) on behalf of MKMVA on the 20 September 2012; little did the organized workers and the MDM structures knew that he was bidding us goodbyes.
He succumbed to death after a short illness on the 30 September 2012, whilst assisting as an administrator in the SACP Skenjana Roji District office. The SACP, ANC, MKMVA and other progressive formations have been robbed of an outstanding leader; a true revolutionary who has lived his life as an inspiration to the people without any material interests.
We would like to convey our heartfelt condolences to Tata Khumalo’s wife, children, relatives, friends and all the progressive formation. Indeed death has again robbed us of a martyr.
Tata Khumalo will be laid to his final resting place on the 12 October 2012 at M1186 Umlazi, Jikeleza Road in Kwazulu Natal.
"Lala ngoxolo Mntungwa"
Issued by the SACP Eastern Cape.
Contact:
Siyabonga Mdodi
SACP Provincial Spokesperson
083 3588 070