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Mr. Kathrada guided President Barack Obama on a tour of Robben Island in 2013. “They did everything to crush our morale,” Mr. Kathrada said about the treatment of prisoners during his incarceration.
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Ahmed Kathrada
Died on March 28, 2017 at age 87
Mr. Kathrada spent 26 years in prison, many of them alongside his close friend Nelson Mandela, for resisting the apartheid system of white minority rule in South Africa.
Notable Deaths 2017
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