Zuma lawyer Kemp J Kemp dies of COVID-19

Advocate Kemp J Kemp has died after contracting COVID-19.

Kemp is best known for defending former President Jacob Zuma during his rape trial in 2006.

He passed away on Tuesday night.

Dr
Llewellyn Curlewis is the former president of the Law Society of the
Northern Provinces and is currently on the management committee of the
Gauteng Legal Practice Council.

Curlewis said that Kemp had a brilliant and sharp legal mind.

“He
was one of the most brilliant brains in the South African legal
fraternity and this is a big loss for the law and the legal fraternity
itself.

On behalf of the legal fraternit, especially in the former
Transvaal, Eastern Gauteng division of the Legal Practice Council our
deepest condolences go out to the family and friends of this colleague.”