Generational dialogue about race challenges

JOHANNESBURG SOUTH – Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies and the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted an inter-generational dialogue about ongoing challenges around race on September 30 at the Sunnyside Park Hotel in Parktown.

The dialogue brought together student leaders from universities across South Africa into an extended engagement with thought leaders on past, current and developing challenges created by race.

The speakers included former head of the South Africa non-racial Olympic committee, Sam Ramsamy who spoke about transformation in sports and former student activist and executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, Khalik Mayet, who addressed non-racialism in the student movement in the 1980s.