South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Kathrada Dies

South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who spent many years imprisoned alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87. Kathrada's foundation announced Tuesday he died at a Johannesburg hospital after a short illness following brain surgery. His activism against white-minority rule in South Africa led to his 1964 conviction in a trial that sent Kathrada to prison along with a group of African National Congress figures that included Mandela, Walter Sisulu and...

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