While Kathrada was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand he was sent as a delegate of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress to the 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin in 1951 . He was elected as the leader of the large multi-racial South African delegation . He remained in Europe in order to attend a congress of the International Union of Students in Warsaw , and finally travelled to Budapest and worked at the headquarters of the World Federation of Democratic Youth for nine months
3rd World Festival of Youth and Students
3rd World Festival of Youth and Students
Ahmed Kathrada