IN JAIL SINCE 1989
Freed PAC veteran vows to unite party
The party welcomes Kenny Motsamai’s release, but points out more than 40 PAC political prisoners are still behind bars
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) prisoner Kenny Motsamai has been released after spending 28 years in prison. He was arrested in 1989 for the murder of a traffic officer during a bank robbery that was sanctioned by the party. The robberies were used to fund PAC activities. At the time‚ he was 26 and had just returned from Ethiopia, where he had undergone military training. Motsamai has been on day parole for the past seven months‚ meaning he could go out of prison during the day with an electronic tracking device and return at night. On his release from the Boksburg prison parole centre‚ Motsamai knelt down to kiss the ground. He would work to unite the PAC now that he was out of prison, he said. He thanked the EFF and his lawyer as well as Prophet Mboro for their support. Mboro gave him R40,000 to start a car wash operation. Motsamai hugged his wife Mantombi and daughter Busi. Then he held his six-year-old grandson’s hand. The little boy had spent the day at the prison waiting in the ...
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