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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.
Yusuf Dadoo was an organizer, an anti-apartheid activist, and one of the defendants in the Treason Trial. He was part of a group that reconstituted the Commu...
Yusuf Dadoo is elected Chairman of the Central Committee and Moses Kotane as the Secretary. Dadoo and Chief Albert Luthuli, the African National Congress, President, are banned again. The leadership of the South African Indian Congress passes onto Naicker until he, too, is banned.
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.
YUSUF MOHAMMED DADOO. That Yusuf Dadoo was one of the preeminent political figures in South Africa in the twentieth-century is testified to by figures of comparable historical stature: Olive Tambo (the President-General of the African National Congress [ANC] during the Exile Period), Joe Slovo (central figure in the South African Communist ...
Apr 16, 2019 · The history of India’s solidarity with the South African liberation struggle is deeply entwined not only with the unfolding of resistance politics in South Africa and the forging of African–Indian unity, but also with Yusuf Dadoo’s life.
Medical doctor, activist, and politician. Best Known For. His work as both a communist and a representative for various Indian civil rights groups, as well as his efforts to join forces with other liberation movements like the African National Congress (ANC). Life highlights. Dadoo studied medicine in London in 1929.
Dadoo returns home, by ship, on vacation during the British summer. On board the ship, he is subjected to overt racism. Dadoo not one to turn the other cheek addresses the dining room on the evils of racism and its eventual demise at the cost of its perpetrators.
