Yusuf Dadoo

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Yusuf Dadoo was a prominent South African Indian anti-apartheid leader, physician, and communist activist who played a key role in uniting Indian and African resistance against racial segregation.

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Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo 1

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instanceOf South African Indian leader
anti-apartheid activist
communist
human
physician
politician
advocatedFor alliance between Indian and African liberation movements
non-racial democracy in South Africa
burialPlace Highgate Cemetery, London
surface form: Highgate Cemetery
causeOfDeath cancer
citizenship South Africa
commemoratedBy Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Krugersdorp
Yusuf Dadoo Street in various South African cities
countryOfBirth South Africa
countryOfDeath United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1909-09-05
dateOfDeath 1983-09-19
education studied medicine in India
studied medicine in the United Kingdom
ethnicGroup Indian South African
familyName Dadoo
givenName Yusuf
honouredBy posthumous recognition in democratic South Africa
memberOf Natal Indian Congress
South African Communist Party
Transvaal Indian Congress
movement Satyagraha
surface form: Indian passive resistance movement in South Africa

anti-apartheid movement
name Yusuf Dadoo self-linksurface differs
surface form: Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
notableFor leadership in the South African Communist Party
organizing passive resistance campaigns against discriminatory laws
uniting Indian and African resistance against apartheid
occupation anti-apartheid activist
physician
politician
trade unionist
opposed apartheid
racial segregation in South Africa
placeOfBirth Krugersdorp
placeOfDeath London, England
surface form: London
politicalIdeology Marxism–Leninism
surface form: Marxism-Leninism

communism
positionHeld chairperson of the South African Communist Party
president of the Transvaal Indian Congress
religion Islam
workedWith South African Communist Party
surface form: African National Congress

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Yusuf Dadoo name Yusuf Dadoo self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo