Elkiam Khumalo (1940 – 27 August 1996) was a South African football midfielder who played for Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs.
[1] Khumalo played for Moroka Swallows in the First Division where he helped them win their only SA Soccer Championship in 1965 and later Kaizer Chiefs in NPSL being one of its first recruits in 1971 and also finishing as a runner up in that season.
He also coached Kaizer Chiefs development sides where his son, Doctor Khumalo excelled and rose to be one of South Africa's best midfielders.
A few months after his son won the Africa Cup of Nations, Khumalo died on 27 August 1996 in hospital when he was shot during a hijacking outside his home in Soweto.
Nelson Mandela sent a letter of condolence to Khumalo's wife reading, "':I learnt with shock of the fatal attack on your husband yesterday.