This year (2025), we approach the 10th annual Anti-Racism Week. South Africa marks two significantmilestones in the pursuit of justice and equality: the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter andthe 60th anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of RacialDiscrimination (ICERD). These landmark documents remain foundational to our collective strugglefor human…
Press statement In celebrating human rights, the Anti-Racism Network South Africa (ARNSA) launched the 5th Anti-Racism Week at the historic Sharpeville Human Rights Precinct, in Vereeniging. The Anti-Racism Network South Africa is an alliance of like-minded organisations interested in responding to issues of racism nationally. The network calls on all various sectors of society to…
Racism in schools can be compared to a steadily growing cancer tumor; ignorable in the beginning yet destructive in the most internal ways.
I stopped drinking my water, and slowly set my glass on the table. shocked at the ease with which the word had crossed continents to fall upon my ears.
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation is deeply concerned by a video made by Kessie Nair which went viral yesterday. In the video, Nair unashamedly and repeatedly refers to President Cyril Ramaphosa as a “kaffir President”. The Foundation’s Executive Director, Neeshan Balton, said, “We condemn this despicable utterance, which is an attack on the dignity of…
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation welcomes yesterday’s sentencing of Vicki Momberg by the Randburg Magistrate’s Court. Momberg was sentenced to three years imprisonment with one year suspended for her racist rant against a police constable, David Mkhondo, and 10111 call centre agents in 2016. It is the first time in South Africa that someone may be…