Biography of yusuf dadoo street

South African activist (1909–1983)

Yusuf Mohamed DadooOMSG (5 September 1909 – 19 September 1983) was a South AfricanCommunist 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. He was a leader of the Defiance Campaign and a defendant at the Treason Trial in 1956.

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His last days were spent in exile in London, where he is buried at Highgate Cemetery; a few metres away from the Tomb of Karl Marx.

Early life

Yusuf was born on 5 September 1909 in Krugersdorp, in the West Rand, near Johannesburg.

His parents, Mohammed and Fatima Dadoo, were Gujarati Muslim immigrants from Surat in Western India.^[1][2] As a young child, he had the formative experience of being scolded by his mother for climbing a tree in his neighbourhood park, w