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Anti-apartheid ANC struggle stalwarts Raymond Mhlaba, Oscar Mpetha, Andrew Mlangeni, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release in 1989 in Soweto. Picture: Raymond Preston/Gallo Images
Anti-apartheid struggle veteran, Rivonia Trialist, Robben Island prisoner, parliamentary counsellor to former president Nelson Mandela and a historian – the life of Ahmed Kathrada was nothing short of revolutionary.
We compiled photographs of the life of one of South Africa’s greatest struggle icons.
Anti-apartheid ANC struggle stalwarts Raymond Mhlaba, Oscar Mpetha, Andrew Mlangeni, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release in1989 in Soweto. PHOTO: Raymond Preston/Gallo Images/Sunday Times
Ahmed Kathrada, Winnie Mandela and Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu at in February 1990. Picture: Paul Weinberg/ South Picture graphs
Nelson Mandela with Mr Ahmed Kathrada at the lime quarry on Robben Island on February 10 1995. Picture: Gallo Images/Oryx Media Archive
Memory lane: On February 11, 1994, the president and six of this fellow prisoners return to the lime quarry where they worked. From left: Dennis Goldberg, Andrew Mlangeni, Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada and Walter Sisulu, all fellow defendants at the Treason Trial. On the far right is Wilson Mkwayi, who was arrested after the Rivonia Trial and tried and convicted separately on similar charges. Picture: Jabu Kumalo
Former Cuban president, Fidel Castro with struggle stalwart, Ahmed Kathrada. Picture: Jabu Kumalo
President of Palestine Yasser Arafat meets Ahmed Kathrada on August 12 1998Picture:
Barack Obama tours Robben Island, South Africa with Ahmed Kathrada on August 20 2006. Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town, is where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, as was Kathrada who was prisoner #468. Picture: Pete Souza/Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images
United States First Lady Michelle Obama met with struggle icon and president of the Robben Island Committee, Ahmed Kathrada, at the District Six Museum on June 23 2011 in Cape Town. Picture: Michael Hammond/Gallo Images/Foto24
This Picture released by The Weinstein Company shows Idris Elba, left, as Nelson Mandela, and Riaad Moosa, as Ahmed Kathrada, in the film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Picture: Keith Bernstein/The Weinstein Company/AP
ANC stalwarts Ahmed Kathrada and ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe during the Gauteng ANC's election campaign at the Orange Farm Multi-Purpose centre. Picture: Leon Sadiki/City Press
Ahmed Kathrada at the establishment of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Picture: Denzil Maregele
Ahmed Kathrada and fellow Robben Island prisoner, Laloo Chiba, sharing a humorous moment at the hospital just before Kathrada had surgery. He died from complications following the operation.
Ahmed Kathrada during a wide-ranging interview in April 2016 .Picture: Thapelo Maphakelo
