The late South African anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada. Photo/rediff.com
President Uhuru Kenyatta has mourned the death of South African anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada who died on Tuesday.
Kenyatta said Kathrada was an exemplary freedom fighter who teaches all Africans of the need to defend rights for all.
“As a young man, he showed the courage he would display all his life, dedicating himself to political activism in defence of the rights of the oppressed," said Kenyatta.
Kenyatta remembered Kathrada as a man of courage; a fighter for the dignity, the equality, and the rights of every African; and as a founding father of the new South Africa.
According to the Kathrada Foundation, the renowned politician died from cerebral complications and was due to be buried on Wednesday in Johannesburg.