Fort Calata Foundation
The Fort Calata foundation will host its third annual memorial lecture at the weekend.
The lecture will be held on Saturday at 10:00 at the Cradock Four Remembrance Garden in Lingegelihle, which honours the memories of the slain anti-apartheid activists Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli.
This year's theme will focus on the widowed young wives and mothers who bore the brunt of the crimes against humanity, perpetrated by the apartheid.
"The Foundation will tap into the wisdom of the widows on how to help build our communities and country into the kind of society their husbands sacrificed their lives for," says foundation spokesperson Lukhanyo Calata.
"We are hoping that this year will be the start of where we honour the widows for the work they did in raising us after our fathers were killed."
He also said the Foundation also wants to use the opportunity to honour all the mothers for "the near miraculous roles they played in raising the families of apartheid victims."
Calata said there are many who would not have had an opportunity to receive this kind of recognition.
The panel will comprise of Nomonde Calata (widow of Fort Calata), Nombuyiselo Mhlauli (widow of Sicelo Mhlauli) Gabrielle Lubowski (widow of Anton Lubowski) while Fatiema Haron Masoet (daughter of Imam Adbullah Haron) will represent her late mother Galiema Haron who unfortunately passed away in September 2019.
The discussion will be facilitated by Dorothy Calata, daughter of Fort Calata and chairperson of the Fort Calata Foundation.
The discussion will also be streamed on the foundation and Rhodes University's Facebook pages.
