The life and legacy of Ismail Mahomed

IN THE foreword to the book titled

, President Cyril Ramaphosa captures the spirit and essence of Ismail Mahomed when reflecting on his role as co-chairperson of Codesa, which set in motion the miraculous evolution to a peaceful and participatory democracy: “These are Mahomed’s words of hope at a time when there was much insecurity and nervousness about the future. ‘Rationally and emotionally inherent in those dramatic days of February 1990, as the jailer and the jailed of yesteryear coalesced to take the first faltering steps away from the malignancy and the shame of our past, was a pledge by the