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South African Anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada

South African Anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada

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After 26 years in jail the veteran anti-apartheid activist had no time for bitterness

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He spent 26 years in jail for trying to topple South Africa’s
white minority government. Veteran anti-apartheid activist Ahmed
Kathrada has died. He was 87 years old. For 18 years he was with
Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, and when he was released from
prison in October 1989 at the age of 60, he continued the
struggle for a non racial South Africa. After the first
democratic elections in 1994, President Mandela persuaded him to
join him in government as his political adviser.

Sarah Montague interviewed Ahmed Kathrada for Hardtalk in April
2014. A man who had given his entire life to the liberation
struggle, he had no time for hatred or bitterness.

(Photo: Ahmed Kathrada. Credit: Getty Images)