Kader Asmal Fellowship
CASAC offers a human rights award aimed at enabling a South African student to study towards a degree in human rights law at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Called the Kader Asmal Human Rights Award (KAHRA), it is named after the late Professor Kader Asmal, human rights champion and political activist, who played a key role in the founding of CASAC. It is presented in partnership with the Embassy of Ireland in South Africa.
The inaugural Kader Asmal Human Rights Award was made in July 2014 to Margaret Stride, a student from the University of Cape Town, at a ceremony at the University of the Western Cape. The keynote address was delivered by Trevor Manuel, former Minister of Finance.
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2018 Receipient
Mosima Rasesemola, an LL.B graduate from the University of Limpopo, was the recipient of the 2018 Kader Asmal Human Rights Scholarship Award
“One of the good things that have come out in our country, since 1994, is that we can’t do a Pontius Pilate act or washing our hands of things. We can’t. Both our constitutional and legal order is posited on the basis of individual responsibility.” (TRC Special Report Transcript, episode 87, section 3, time 38:52).
