The British Defence IDAF’S extensive research Legal Assistance and Aid Fund and publication operation 1958 helps to raise international Trust Canon Collins merges awareness of the plight of 1985 various Christian Action the South African people The Legal Assistance Trust is founded to raise 1946 funds raising money and build support for the money in the UK to support the work of the Christian Action for South African anti- anti-apartheid struggle. . apartheid activities into Canon John Collins, sets up the new British Defence Mandela’s Christian Action with the and Aid Fund for Southern initial objective of promoting Release and Africa (BDAF). reconciliation in post-war Europe. 1990 Expansion Through CA, Collins raises funds to Following the release of Nelson support families of ANC Defiance Over a period of 25 years, £100 million was 1979 Mandela, CCETSA extends its work Campaign activists imprisoned for smuggled into to help fund to ten SADC countries. Scholars start non-violent protests against South the legal costs of political trials and support the The Legal Resources Centre is established by lawyers and activists, “ including and Felicia Kentridge. LRC lawyers represent returning to southern Africa and Africa’s apartheid government. dependants of those opposing apartheid. In this way become engaged in social justice work. IDAF made a vital contribution to ending apartheid.” individuals arrested under pass law infractions and challenge forced Canon John Collins removals and detention without trial. They become instrumental in - Bill Frankel OBE dismantling much of the legal architecture of apartheid. Secret Legal Counsel to IDAF

International Defence Educational Trust for Treason Trial 1994 and Aid Fund and Southern Africa Giyani Science Centre In the year of South Defence Fund 1981 Africa’s first democratic 1964 Rivonia Trial Canon Collins and IDAF colleague Ethel de Keyser 1956 elections, CCETSA BDAF is reconstituted as the International Defence set up a trust to fund exiled activists and their After his first visit to South Africa in 1954, begins funding the and Aid Fund (IDAF), with Canon Collins serving children to study in the UK and other countries, Canon Collins launches the Treason Trial Giyani Science Centre, as President. Branches are formed in Britain, New acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to Defence Fund to raise money to pay the implementing a project Zealand, Scandinavia, Holland and India. IDAF contribute to the new democracies predicted to legal fees of 156 anti-apartheid activists, to improve the standard pays the legal costs for defendants of the Rivonia emerge in southern Africa. After Collins’ death, the including Chief Albert Luthuli and Nelson of mathematics and Trial, in which is convicted of organisation is renamed Canon Collins Educational Mandela. science education Treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. Trust for Southern Africa. in the province of Limpopo, which has been starved of quality education throughout 2016 Historical Timeline of the the apartheid era. Canon Collins Trust has worked Sylvester Stein tirelessly to develop Southern Fellowship Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust Africans to be leaders in their fields “through providing access to education. Sylvester Stein Fellowship It is through this access to education launched to honour the that young people will realise their full memory of renowned potential to build better lives for all.” writer and activist. - Nelson Mandela 2016: A Time 2013 for Academic CCELAT partners with Wits Justice Project, 1997 an investigative journalism organisation 2002 Nelson Mandela Activism researching human rights abuses and Phelophepa Health Train challenging miscarriages of justice. Scholarships Our annual Scholars’ CCETSA partners with the Conference addresses Phelophepa Health Train to Established in CCELAT partners with student activism and bring dedicated mobile teams partnership Equal Education, a the #FeesMustFall of health professionals to poor, with Unilever movement. movement of learners, to develop parents, teachers and rural South Africans. leadership community members working for quality capacity in and equality in South previously 25 Years of Nelson Mandela at a reception with All I can say to you, Canon Collins African education, 2011 disadvantaged Canon Collins the 2006 cohort of NMS scholars scholars, is get involved as Canon through analysis and Adolescent Girls Literacy Project 2006 communities. John Collins did. You will not only make activism. “society, your local community or the CCETSA supports the Adolescent Girls Twenty-five years after it was set up, world better; you will infinitely make The Scholars’ Scholar Award is launched. Literacy Project (AGLIT) in Malawi to the work of the Canon Collins Trust is still Leigh Day yourself better. Don’t opt out, play your Funded by CCELAT alumni, it is awarded annually to implement an education, literacy and “much needed because it enables southern Law Scholarships part in a changing world.” 2000 an exceptional individual who embodies the Trust’s sexual health programme to address the Africans themselves to transform lives. Established for undergraduate students vision of an open and just society. high rate of adolescent girls dropping out - Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng at University of the Western Cape, later of school. - Archbishop Desmond Tutu extended to the University of Fort Hare.

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Education Ros Moger and Terry 2008 can be the Furlong Scholarships 2001 2015 CCETSA founder Ethel de 2012 difference between Established in memory of CCELAT raises funds from Graca Machel “ Keyser is awarded an OBE 2014 CCETSA merges with the a life of grinding two dedicated London Comic Relief to support Our Scholarship in Action Legal Assistance Trust (LAT) Scholarships poverty and the educationalists to support for services to human rights. LRC’s ongoing work to Impact Report findings to become the Canon are launched to fund potential for a full southern African scholars She directs the organisa- defend the housing and show that 96% of CCELAT Collins Educational and southern African women and secure one. to complete degrees in tion until her death in 2004, land rights of some of SA’s alumni remain living and Legal Assistance Trust. from rural or disadvantaged the fields of Education, having dedicated her life to most vulnerable citizens. working in Africa. - Graca Machel the South African liberation (CCELAT). backgrounds to complete Arts & Humanities struggle. postgraduate education.