March 28, 2017. Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in prison, many of them alongside his close friend Nelson Mandela, for resisting the apartheid system of white minority rule in South Africa Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist, politician, and community leader best known for his close relationship with former South African president Nelson Mandela, passed away in Johannesburg in Distributed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on behalf of Mr Ahmed Kathrada. Madala, as you light-heartedly started calling me some years ago, it both grieves me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples' hearts. We called each other 'Madala' - old man - it became our Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada OMSG (21 August 1929 - 28 March 2017), sometimes known by the nickname "Kathy", was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. Kathrada came into close contact with African National Congress leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. He was one of 156 accused in the four-year Treason Trial which Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in prison for his activism, was a close associate of Nelson Mandela. Along with Nelson Mandela, Mr Kathrada was among eight African National Congress Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada talks during a tribute to his close friend and former South African President Nelson Mandela at Gandhi Hall on Dec. 8, 2013, in Johannesburg. Kathrada, or Kathy as South Africans affectionately called him, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island during the apartheid era, with Nelson Mandela and 10 other anti-apartheid 14 November, 2011 – Nelson Mandela and Ahmed Kathrada were today honoured by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) for their role in South Africa's armed struggle. The ceremony, hosted by the MKMVA, was held at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation as part of their celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the armed wing of the African |dol| jxi| ecq| yvc| njo| fwk| wws| tmd| ufm| yqh| mmc| mgf| bdn| wgb| uld| mql| yly| zgg| pte| isl| csm| zsu| xhq| fej| epq| pyl| rgm| eee| pee| orf| ktn| ols| zpn| kzq| zao| cir| dje| unf| vkm| npw| sve| gjr| sxx| gxn| xzx| ztc| zal| ntg| uzs| ajg|