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Dadoo, Yusuf Mohamed, 1909-1983

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Personal name headingDadoo, Yusuf Mohamed, 1909-1983
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Variant(s)Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, 1909-1983
Yusuf Dadoo, 1909-1983
Dadoo, Y. M. (Yusuf Mohamed), 1909-1983
Associated countrySouth Africa
Birth date1909
Death date1983-09
Place of birthKrugersdorp (South Africa)
Place of deathLondon (England)
AffiliationNon-European United Front
Communist Party of South Africa Transvaal Indian Congress South African Indian Congress
Profession or occupationPoliticians Revolutionaries Physicians Herbalists
Found inHis South Africa's freedom struggle ... c1990: t.p. (Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo) p. xvi (Dr. Dadoo; Yusuf Dadoo; b. 9/5/1909) p. xxiv (d. 9/19/1983)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dadoo, Yusuf Mohamed; Mota; Doc; communist, political figure, revolutionary, eclectic physician; born 1909 in Krugersdorp, South Africa; matriculated at Aligarh Muslim College in India; graduated with Glasgow and Edinburgh medical degrees (1936); returned to South Africa (1936); cofounded the Non-European United Front (1938); joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) (1939); went to prison several times (1940, 1941, 1946, 1948); elected to lead a National Anti-Pass Council; elected president on Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC); elected president of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) (1950); awarded with the ANC's highest honor- Isitwalandwe (1955); led the South African Communist Party (SACP) (1972); died September 1983 in London, England)