PRESS STATEMENTTuesday, 22 July 2025 The removal of Dr Nobuhle Nkabane as Minister of Higher Education and Training is an important shift in the leadership of the higher education sector. Her disdain for Parliamentary accountability and reported fabricated Seta Board appointments has correctly led to her removal. Similarly, the decision to suspend Adv Andrew Chauke,…
This Youth Month, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Youth Leadership and Activism Programme calls on all sectors of society to recommit to meaningful youth development. Not through slogans, but through real action, real inclusion, and real investment in youth-led change, in honour of the spirit of 1976. 49 years since the Soweto Uprising, South Africa’s young…
12 June 2025 The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of the National Dialogue as a necessary step toward rebuilding our democracy, restoring social cohesion, and renewing our collective commitment to a united nation. South Africans are known for their ability to face challenges head-on and work together to find solutions. That is…
JOHANNESBURG – Various foundations have noted with gratitude President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of the commencement of a National Dialogue. The organisations, including the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, Nelson Mandela Foundation, and Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, were not part of Ramaphosa’s announcement on Tuesday night. He named 31 prominent South Africans from varying sectors of society, who will be championing…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF) has slammed Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, for threatening to shut them down and other civil society organisations.
06 June 2025 The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF) strongly condemns the inflammatory and unlawfulcomments made by Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, that are reportedin Africa Report (22 May 2025), threatening to shut down civil society organisations, includingthe AKF. His statements are a direct attack on the values of our democracy, the rule…
Youth are encouraged to voice their perspectives on the ongoing challenges of racism.
One of the biggest tramplers of freedom is the immense misinformation and disinformation that goes on daily, says Neeshan Balton
“But I love France! France digitised the Rivonia Trials,” he says, referring to the trial of Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and six other African National Congress members who were sentenced to life in prison in 1964.
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to Washington, D.C., for high-level talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. This visit is an important opportunity to reset relations and reassert South Africa’s commitment to democracy, multilateralism, and principled global engagement. We commend President Ramaphosa for leading this effort and acknowledge the delegation accompanying him,…