Africa: Ahmed Kathrada - Exhibit A of the Values Imbued in South Africa's Freedom Charter

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Another South African legend has gone. Ahmed 'Uncle Kathy' Kathrada, an unassuming, quiet man who has left South Africans with a legacy that's immediate, not historical.

Born in 1929, two factors mark his life and his passing, as they did for Nelson Mandela: he was African National Congress through and through. And he was a non-racialist. The byline of the Kathrada Foundation, a non-governmental organisation he established, is to 'deepen non-racialism'. This is something he believed in to his core, even as others around him began to argue for an Africanist approach.

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