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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former minister and widow of liberation struggle icon Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Hogan, and South African Revenue Services Commissioner Edward Kieswetter have decried the corrosion that plagues South African society.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hogan and Kieswetter were speaking at Constitution Hill during the opening of an exhibition depicting Kathrada’s colourful political life. The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation teamed up with Constitution Hill to honour the late struggle hero on the 93rd anniversary of his birth.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363344\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada20.jpg\" alt=\"kathrada\" width=\"720\" height=\"362\" /> A view of the exhibition of the life of Struggle hero Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In reference to the corrosion plaguing society and some of the country’s political leaders, Hogan said ANC leader Tony Yengeni’s remark that he did not participate in the Struggle “to be poor” was most shocking:</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1361144\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MC-Tuesday-16Aug_2.jpg\" alt=\"ahmed kathrada\" width=\"720\" height=\"434\" /> Ahmed Kathrada. (Photo: Gallo Images / The Times / Moeletsi Mabe)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“This new government had everything and virtually everybody behind it, personified in Madiba, and yet we have shifted to a hubris. We have shifted to a world that we are right and that everybody is wrong.” </span>\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaCpvJFcjo\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hogan expanded: “Along with this hubris comes entitlement. I am entitled. It is my time to eat. And that value that I have suffered, I have been at the receiving end of racism. I have been marginalised and excluded, so I will queue to be a councillor because it’s my time to eat. I will queue to get a tender because it’s my time to eat.”</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363343\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada19.jpg\" alt=\"kathrada exhibition\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" /> A the exhibition of the life of Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“And the interlocutory of this power of hubris when you do not need to care about people’s experience on the ground or how you are being perceived or what is right or wrong, together with the sense of entitlement, is surely one of the most corroding values that has infiltrated our society,” Hogan said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We have become a society more divided and void of truth… characterised by greed, violence and corruption,” Hogan said.</span>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<strong>Visit <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=in_article_link&utm_campaign=homepage\"><em>Daily Maverick's</em> home page</a> for more news, analysis and investigations</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<h4><b>State Capture devastation</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kieswetter said he bore testimony to the devastation that took place in the years of State Capture. “For institutions, like SARS, the NPA and the Hawks and other departments, as well as critical SOEs, became personal fiefdoms used to serve a corrupt intent instead of serving the interests of all South Africans.” </span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363349\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada31.jpg\" alt=\"kathrada zuma letter\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" /> Replicas of letters written by Ahmed Kathrada, including his famed letter to former president Zuma. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363342\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada17.jpg\" alt=\"kathrada exhibition constiution hill\" width=\"720\" height=\"388\" /> Delani Majola from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation during the installation at Constitution Hill of the exhibition of the life of Struggle hero Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (21 August 1929-28 March 2017). (Photo: Alet Pretorius)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363341\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada16.jpg\" alt=\"kathrada installation\" width=\"720\" height=\"1079\" /> Delani Majola from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation during the installation of an exhibition of the life of Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I can attest that the damage through State Capture is real and those in denial are either complicit or they are still fighting the quest to deal with corruption… to deal with the consequences of State Capture,’ said Kieswetter.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Various speakers reminded the gathering of the outstanding qualities of the late Struggle hero Kathrada, among them resilience, honesty, integrity, perseverance, trustworthiness and love.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363346\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada24.jpg\" alt=\"kathrada badges\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" /> A selection of Kathrada's badge collection that forms part of an exhibition of his life that opened on Sunday, 21 August 2022 at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. 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Kathrada was also praised for his punctuality and cleanliness. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In honour of Kathrada, speakers also urged South Africans to take a stand against gender justice to effectively deal with the scourge of gender-based violence and the climate crisis.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363338\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathrada11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" /> A bracelet engraved with 'Ahmed Kathrada 1964' with a letter from The Rev Suzanne Peterson explaining its significance forms part of an exhibition of the Struggle hero’s life that opened on Sunday, 21 August 2022 at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In remembering Kathrada, Hogan cautioned young people about the current “dark, terrible times”. She said the corrosion which had beset society demanded that young people drew from Kathrada’s political wisdom.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“One of the things I liked about Kathy was that he never abused his position to enrich himself,” Hogan said, adding that this was despite his wide political connections. 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A view of the exhibition of the life of Struggle hero Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
Ahmed Kathrada. (Photo: Gallo Images / The Times / Moeletsi Mabe)
A the exhibition of the life of Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
Replicas of letters written by Ahmed Kathrada, including his famed letter to former president Zuma. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
Delani Majola from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation during the installation at Constitution Hill of the exhibition of the life of Struggle hero Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (21 August 1929-28 March 2017). (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
Delani Majola from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation during the installation of an exhibition of the life of Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
A selection of Kathrada's badge collection that forms part of an exhibition of his life that opened on Sunday, 21 August 2022 at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
A replica of the cell Ahmed Kathrada was imprisoned in on Robben Island forms part of the exhibition at Contitution Hill in Johannesburg. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)
A bracelet engraved with 'Ahmed Kathrada 1964' with a letter from The Rev Suzanne Peterson explaining its significance forms part of an exhibition of the Struggle hero’s life that opened on Sunday, 21 August 2022 at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. (Photo: Alet Pretorius)