The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation will on August 30 take the leadership of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) for a tour of Robben Island. The tour will be conducted in accordance with the wishes of former Robben Island prisoner, Ahmed Kathrada, who passed away in March this year. It will also form part of the…
The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) supported by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation will host the Lenasia leg of its “Our Rights” community dialogue series on Thursday, August 24. The meeting, set to take place at Shari Crest Primary School Hall, will begin at 2.30pm and will specifically focus on the Right to…
He let me be his surrogate sister when all the available adoptive daughter positions in his life had been filled. Kathy was protective and kind. Nurturing and guiding. The big brother I had been missing for most of my life. He liked to hang out just to ‘gossip’ as he put it and…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation is deeply disgusted at the reported attack on an African couple by six white males. A video surfaced on social media this week of the group of males attacking a man identified as Jacob Sono and his wife at a KFC drive-through based in Pretoria. This was after the couple…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes the reopening of the inquest into the death of teacher and anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Timol. Monday, June 26, will see the case reopening before Judge Billy Mothle at the South Gauteng High Court. The inquest comes 45 years following Timol’s (30) death in police detention after he fell…
It is a great honour for me to be invited to speak at the 2015 Ahmed Kathrada Annual Lecture.