Addressed to gathering,‘United against Corruption: Building a culture of accountability for sustainable development’, taking place on 9th December 2019 at the University of South Africa. Attention: Minister of Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu We, the undersigned organisations, on International Anti-Corruption Day, reiterate our commitment to defeating state capture and rebuilding the state. Over the…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation urges the UNHRC, the South African government, civil society organisations and refugee representative organisations to find an urgent, amicable solution to the crisis in Cape Town and Pretoria. This call comes after many refugees staged a sit in outside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices at Waldorf Arcade in…
Throughout this year, the youth clubs have initiated several campaigns to help address challenges and issues within their localities, while at the same time strengthening their capacity as young activists in the communities which they serve.
And, from the plush wedding that they held earlier this year in the Himalayas, they seemingly still have large caches of cash at hand.
Press statement 6 September 2019 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes Hanekom vs Zuma judgement The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes Judge Dhaya Pillay’s ruling on the defamation case lodged by Ahmed Kathrada Foundation Chairperson, Derek Hanekom, against former South African President, Jacob Zuma. Judge Pillay declared that the allegations made about Derek Hanekom were defamatory, false and…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation is extremely worried about the situation that has been unfolding in various parts of Gauteng since Sunday. The brazen looting, pillaging, violence, thuggery and xenophobia should draw our collective condemnation. The Foundation urges community, faith-based, organisational and political leaders to speak out against the lawlessness that has engulfed certain parts of…
I have been shocked, offended and pained by the events that have unfolded over the last weeks. Former President Zuma made an allegation in the Zondo Commission last month that comrades Siphiwe Nyanda and Ngoako Ramathlodi were apartheid spies. Early this month he made a statement on twitter that “I’m not surprised by @Julius_S_Malema revelations…
Human and gender rights activist, Elinor Sisulu has called on South Africans, the youth in particular, to read more and know their history. Sisulu was speaking at an event hosted by the Ahmed Kathrada and the Sophie & Henry De Bruyn Foundations which paid tribute to several women who contributed selflessly to the resistance against…
Young people wishing to take part in the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Annual Youth Essay Writing Competition Against Racism will have until Thursday, August 22 to apply. This comes after several requests from young people who have been asking for an extension of the closing date for the writing competition. The competition officially closed on Wednesday,…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation will this month mark what would have been the 90th birthday of anti-apartheid struggle veteran, Ahmed Kathrada. A series of programmes and events will be held to celebrate Kathrada’s legacy as a lifelong activist. Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929 in the rural town of Schweizer Reneke in the North…