Yusuf Dadoo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yusuf Dadoo

South African activist

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1909

Place of Birth: Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1983

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo (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.