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Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo OMSG (5 September 1909 – 19 September 1983) was a South African Communist and an anti-apartheid activist. During his life, he was chair of both the South African Indian Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as being a major proponent of co-operation between those organisations and the African National Congress.
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link its destiny with that of the African majority, in building the unity of all the oppressed people and democratic whites of that country in a common struggle against racism, in promoting ...
Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born on 5 September 1909 in Krugersdorp on the West Rand. His father, Mahomed Dadoo, had been born in 1881 in the small village of Kholvad along the south banks of the Tapi River, a few miles outside the ancient south Gujarat city of Surat, in India.
1940. Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr Yusuf Dadoo's role as an activist in the Non European United Front (NEUF) and the Indian Community raises his profile in the Communist Party. He is elected to the Johannesburg District Committee of the CPSA.
Sep 14, 2023 · Anti-apartheid activist and struggle icon Yusuf Dadoo had an early introduction to social injustice in South Africa. When he was just 10 years old, in the late 1910s, the local...
May 8, 2018 · 1972. August 11, Dadoo delivers a speech at the funeral of J. B. Marks at Novodovichy cemetery in Moscow. November, Following the death of J.B. Marks, Dadoo is elected South African Communist Party Chairman at a Central Committee meeting in the German Democratic Republic.
Sep 14, 2023 · Anti-apartheid activist and struggle icon Yusuf Dadoo had an early introduction to social injustice in South Africa. When he was just 10 years old, in the late 1910s, the local municipality tried to evict the Dadoos from their business premises in the “whites-only” area of Krugersdorp.
Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo OMSG was a South African Communist and an anti-apartheid activist. During his life, he was chair of both the South African Indian Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as being a major proponent of co-operation between those organisations and the African National Congress.
Sep 21, 1983 · Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, a leader of the South African Indian minority and of the banned Communist Party, has died in Britain after 23 years of exile, the African National Congress said today. He was 74...
Mar 16, 2011 · On 5 September 1909, a tireless fighter for national and social liberation, Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the story of Dadoo’s life was inextricably linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid.
