Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… he left the university; Ahmed Kathrada, a South African of Indian extraction who started politics as a passive resister … consistently a leading participant in the struggle of the Indian and other Asian South Africans against the Group Areas … other forms of racial discrimination, and has, with other Indian leaders, joined the Africans in the liberation …