Ahmed Kathrada Foundation

General information

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation will:

Promote the values, rights and principles enshrined in the Freedom Charter and the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa;

Collect, record, promote and display, through historical artefacts and contemporary material, Kathrada's role in South Africa's liberation struggle and its relation to the role of other individuals, groups and movements both nationally and internationally;

Establish a Research and Documentation centre that will provide selective historical and contemporary documentation and archival material on liberation history in South Africa and make this available for academic and scholarly research;

Organize seminars, lectures, debates and discussions and undertake research on issues which promote a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa;

Identify and support projects and programmes that will deepen non racialism and create an equitable society;

Build and maintain a centre that will carry out all of the activities and programmes of the Foundation.
While Ahmed Kathrada's activities were substantially connected with the Indian Congress, in practice his activities extended well beyond the Indian Community, ranging from the Young Communist League to Umkhonto we Sizwe amongst others. The foundation will therefore strive to include basic data and be a reference point for information on other individuals and liberation organizations.