And anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada has died at the age of 87. Kathrada, better known as Kathy, was a member of the African National Congress. In 1963, he was arrested with other ANC leaders and went on to spend 26 years in prison—18 of them on Robben Island. He later served as President Mandela’s parliamentary adviser. This is Ahmed Kathrada speaking in Visby, Sweden, in 2014.

Ahmed Kathrada: “Ours was historically a struggle for a nonracial, nonsexist, democratic South Africa. That is what sent many people to prison, and that is for—many, many of our colleagues lost their lives and were not alive to see the birth of democracy in our country.”

That was Ahmed Kathrada, speaking in 2014. He has died in Johannesburg at the age of 87.