Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (Kathy)

Makhura is liked by many of the party's old guard and is a trustee of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (Ahmed Kathrada was convicted with Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial)...

The meeting which was convened by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation on what would have been the late Rivonia trial defendant's 91st birthday followed a call by the Kathrada Nelson Mandela and Desmond and Leah Tutu foundations the South African Council of Churches and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution to mobilise opposition to the 'corrupt ANC'...

Leading the charge were former Cabinet Ministers Cheryl Carolus and Barbara Hogan who both sit on the Board of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation...

Deputy Justice Minister Thabang Makwetla and Robben Island veteran Ahmed Kathrada are also in the group...

They intend to confront the current ANC leadership backed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation the Thabo Mbeki Foundation the Oliver Tambo Foundation and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation...

Among them are former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe the Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu foundations as well as the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation headed by one of the last three survivors of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial group Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada...

Two respected ANC veterans and lifelong stalwarts Ben Turok and Barbara Hogan the partner of one of the late President Nelson Mandela's closest associates on Robben Island Ahmed Kathrada called on Zuma to resign...

Nostalgia for liberation heroesAmong older South Africans there is powerful nostalgia for the generation of leaders that included Walter Sisulu Ahmed Kathrada and Mandela...

Fading from the scene but leaving no useful space behind are Walter Sisulu Ahmed Kathrada (SACP) Govan Mbeki (SACP) Wilton Mkwayi (SACP) and Andrew Mlangeni (SACP)...