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Yusuf Dadoo
Born(1909-09-05)5 September 1909
Krugersdorp, West Rand, South Africa
Died19 September 1983(1983-09-19) (aged 74)
London, England
Resting placeHighgate cemetery, London, England
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
Edinburgh University
Known forAnti-apartheid movement
Political partySouth African Indian Congress
South African Communist Party

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. He was a leader of the Defiance Campaign and a defendant at the Treason Trial in 1956. 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.

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