The Board of Trustees and staff of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF) are deeply saddened by the passing of Ms Maniben Sita on Wednesday, 7 July 2021, at the age of 94. She had contracted Covid-19, and spent the last week at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Tshwane. We remember Maniben for her courageous…
Youth Day 2021 was incredibly memorable for me. We commemorated the 45th anniversary of the Soweto uprising by engaging with likeminded young people interested in making a change and difference within their communities. We embarked on a tour to the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre, once known as the Pretoria Maximum Prison. It was…
This year, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation challenged me pay tribute to the youth of ’76 differently than from I had become used to. My experience had become typical, what with adults proudly donning school uniforms from head to toe, to social gatherings supposedly in memory of June 16. Had it not been for the time…
The trip to the dark and gloomy gallows reconnected me with a very important part of the South African liberation history, yet one I was never aware of before. When the warder-cum-tour guide took us around, explaining exactly what happened inside the gallows to condemned prisoners like Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, I felt short-changed that for the longest while…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Youth Day event in Pretoria was for me an eye opening experience. Under different circumstances, no one would have anticipated going to the gallows, unless driven by a sense of conviction. Imagine having your last meal, expected to down it knowing that the next day would be your very last sunrise.…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation conveys its deepest condolences to the family, friends and comrades of struggle veteran and treason trialist Dr Hassen Mohamed ‘Ike’ Moosa. Comrade Hassen was born in Johannesburg in September 1923 to Hajira and Mohamed Moosa. After completing his matric, he went on to pursue a BSc degree at the University of…
Opportunity closing date: Friday, 9 July, 2021 Opportunity type: Employment Job summary: To develop and manage the anti-racism programme of the AKF. To provide support to the Anti-racism network of South Africa. Duties and responsibilities: Develop and manage the anti-racism strategies and programmes of the AKF Provide support to the Anti- racism Network of South…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes the charges instituted by the National Prosecuting Authority against Rajesh and Atul Gupta and their wives, Chetali and Arti, as well as several of their business associates. It also welcomes the Investigating Directorate’s seizure of R520 million worth of assets belonging to the Guptas, their associate Iqbal Sharma and his…
Struggle veteran Abdul Kadir Saloojee – a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) – passed away after a short illness in Lenasia on Wednesday, 26 May 2021, at the age of 80. The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing…
Thambi Naidoo and his Family: Struggle for a Non-Racial Democracy is a poignant and well-documented account of a family, through four generations spanning over 100 years, who have committed themselves to the fight for freedom in South Africa and who continue to be the foot soldiers of our constitutional democracy. The individual stories of each…