#Ahmed Kathrada

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A Tanka today to summarise Ahmed Kathrada & Denis Goldberg, ongoing fight for freedom ... (via Fight - Ch#38 (Just one thing))

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Mandela month- Nelson Mandela 100th birthday count down Seven days to go-  Acting on information from an informant, the Special Forces raided Lilies leaf farmhouse on 11 July 1963.

Mandela month- Nelson Mandela 100th birthday count down Seven days to go-  Acting on information from an informant, the Special Forces raided Lilies leaf farmhouse on 11 July 1963.

 When the police came through the door, they found a group of men studying ‘Operation Mayibuye’ – an MK proposal for guerrilla warfare, insurrection and revolution. Among the group were Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mahlaba, Ahmed Kathrada, Arthur Goldreich, Dennis Goldberg and Lionel Bernstein.

Hundreds of incriminating documents were found during the raid, and members of the group were…

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Remembering Ahmed Kathrada, South African anti-apartheid leader

By Abayomi Azikiwe

Funeral services were held March 29 for Ahmed Mohamed “Kathy” Kathrada, a longtime member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress.  He died at the age of 87 after undergoing neurosurgery. Hundreds of family members and friends attended his memorial and paid tribute to the veteran of the decades-long national liberation struggle that brought the ANC to power in 1994.

Although under banning orders for political activities, Kathrada was heavily involved in the formation and early operations of the ANC-SACP military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). In July 1963, after going underground, Kathrada and other other MK leaders were arrested at the Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia during a law-enforcement raid. Mandela had been arrested the year before with the CIA’s assistance and charged with leaving the country illegally. Mandela had traveled from 1961 to 1962 to Ethiopia and Morocco to receive military training. He was caught at a roadblock while posing as a driver for a white family.

In 1964, Kathrada along with Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Dennis Goldberg, Raymond Mhlaba, Elias Motsoaledi and Andrew Mlangeni were tried for treason and found guilty in an apartheid court. Although they faced the death penalty, this racist court sentenced the ANC-SACP leaders to life in prison without parole and hard labor. Mandela, the last to be released, served over 27 years in prison at Robben Island, Pollsmoor and a  Western Cape residence.

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And in the darkness, a mighty tree fell

And in the darkness, a mighty tree fell

There was a tree that stood, up on a hill, where once there was a forest. It’s aged branches and bark showed the violence and abuse of the passage of time. It stretched over the ground where it stood, casting a shadow deep across the meadow where its brethren once hardened the earth with their roots. Now and then the wind will blow through the valley and spin bushes and flowers off into the…

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AHMED KATHRADA (1929-Died March 28th 2017,at 87.Cerebral embolism).South African politician,former political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist,who was closely associated with Nelson Mandela,as a fellow prisoner & friend,and their fight for freedom and oppression against the often brutal white dominated apartheid regime of South Africa,as an active member of the African National Congress. Kathrada was arrested in 1964,and after the crooked Rivonia trial,alongside Nelson Mandela,Walter Sisulu,Govan Mbeki and other apartheid activists,and was sentenced to life imprisonment,and was Mandela’s fellow prisoner,at Robben island,before being transferred to Pollsmoor Maximum Security prison,in 1983.He was released in 1989,a year before Mandela’s release in 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Kathrada

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SOUTH AFRICA POLITICS: Ahmed Kathrada Biography

Ahmed Mohamed Kathy Kathrada born 21 August 1929 to Indian immigrant parents. In 1940s, Kathrada first met Nelson Mandela. Read Ahmed Kathrada Biography.

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Fight - Ch#38 (Just one thing)

Fight – Ch#38 (Just one thing)

Let’s fight for freedom,

Regardless of its huge cost.

For everyone’s right –

To choose how to live their life,

In peace, and with acceptance.

(Tanka)

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Chapter 38 – Summary from the Wisdom of Ahmed Kathrada & Denis Goldberg

The Post has been inspired by If I Could Tell You Just One Thing by Richard Reed.

Over the 62 days, in July and August, my…

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So Ahmed Kathrada passed away

I hope now that one of the lessons our nation remembers is that the Muslims were part of the vital team in fighting apartheid

Why think that they are enemies now?

Ahmed spent that life sentence with Madiba and its time that all the nations band together the way they once did and build a people that respect each other

We have to look at our past, the past of us South Africans, instead of foreign countries anywhere, and try, try to succeed the way the way our old leaders did

Imagine if those people thought the way we did? Petty and bitter. We would have gotten nowhere.

Here’s to a new morning, a better one.

Tata. Allah Almighty bless you with the highest stages of Paradise.

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Muere Ahmed Kathrada, icono de la lucha anti-apartheid en Sudáfrica

Muere Ahmed Kathrada, icono de la lucha anti-apartheid en Sudáfrica

Johannesburgo, (ANDINA),- El veterano de la lucha anti-apartheid Ahmed Kathrada, compañero de celda de Nelson Mandela en la cárcel de Robben Island, murió el martes en Johannesburgo a los 87 años, como consecuencia de una operación, anunció la fundación que lleva su nombre.

Exdiputado y consejero del presidente Mandela durante su único mandato (1994-1999), Kathrada formaba parte del primer círculo…

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Following Nelson Mandela In South Africa, Robben Island, Capetown

Following Nelson Mandela In South Africa, Robben Island, Capetown

Following Nelson Mandela In South Africa   Robben Island, Capetown  “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope…

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South African President Jacob Zuma survives impeachment vote

South African President Jacob Zuma survives impeachment vote

South African President Jacob Zuma answers questions at Parliament in Cape Town on March 17. South Africa — President Jacob Zuma survived a vote to remove him from office Tuesday, in the wake of the most serious in a string of scandals that has tarnished the popularity of the governing African National Congress. The National Assembly voted down by 233 to 143 a measure that would have forced out…

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SOUTH AFRICA: Ahmed Kathrada To Zuma: Quit Now

In a development described by analysts as potentially pivotal, Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela in 1964, called on Zuma to quit.

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