ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
LETTER TO PROF. D. D. T. JABAVU, JULY 4, 1940
LETTER TO PROFESSOR D. D. T. JABAVU, JULY 5, 1940
STATEMENT BEFORE THE COURT AT HIS TRIAL
UNDER EMERGENCY REGULATIONS, SEPTEMBER 6,
1940
STATEMENT TO THE INDIAN PEOPLE ON THE EVE OF
HIS TRIAL, JANUARY 30, 1941
STATEMENT IN COURT AT TRIAL FOR SPEECH AT
BENONI, JANUARY 31, 1941
OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL SMUTS, JANUARY 1942
“FREE US TO DEFEND OUR HOMES”:
STATEMENT, MARCH 1942
SPEECH AT ANTI-PASS CONFERENCE, JOHANNESBURG,
DECEMBER 4, 1943
STATEMENT ON THE PRETORIA AGREEMENT, MAY 1944
“SEGREGATION OR PROGRESS”:
AN APPEAL TO NATAL INDIANS, MARCH 1945
THE INDIAN PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICA: FACTS: ABOUT THE GHETTO ACT
CIRCULAR LETTER TO TRADE UNIONS, PROGRESSIVE
ORGANISATIONS, DEMOCRATS AND ANTI-FASCISTS,
JUNE 10, 1946
STATEMENT IN COURT IN TRIAL FOR PASSIVE
RESISTANCE, JUNE 1946
MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE WHILE AWAITING SENTENCE TO
IMPRISONMENT IN THE PASSIVE RESISTANCE
CAMPAIGN, JUNE 27, 1946
STATEMENT ON RELEASE FROM PRISON, SEPTEMBER 26
1946
SPEECH AT MASS WELCOME MEETING IN
JOHANNESBURG ON RELEASE FROM PRISON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1946
“WE ARE MARCHING ON”: FOREWORD TO PAMPHLET, NOVEMBER 1946
CIRCULAR LETTER TO ORGANISATIONS CONCERNING
THE ARREST OF J. N. SINGH UNDER THE
IMMIGRATION ACT, NOVEMBER 9, 1946
THREE DOCTORS` PACT, MARCH 9, 1947
JOINT STATEMENT OF DR. YUSUF M. DADOO AND
DR. G. M. NAICKER, MARCH 11, 1947
"PROPOSED ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE": STATEMENT AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON RETURN FROM INDIA IN JUNE 1947
MESSAGE ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF PASSIVE
RESISTANCE, JUNE 1947
"SMUTS REFUTED": JOINT STATEMENT OF DR. DADOO AND DR. NAICKER ON THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GENERAL SMUTS
AND PANDIT NEHRU, AUGUST 1947
"CALL FOR RENEWED STRUGGLE AGAINST GHETTO ACT": JOINT STATEMENT OF DR. DADOO AND DR. NAICKER ISSUED AFTER A MEETING OF THE JOINT PASSIVE RESISTANCE COUNCIL, DECEMBER 1947
"RESISTANCE OR DEATH": ADDRESS AT PUBLIC MEETING, JOHANNESBURG, JANUARY 1948
"HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON": TRIBUTE TO MAHATMA
GANDHI, JANUARY 30, 1948
"BAPU": REMINISCENCES OF MAHATMA GANDHI, FEBRUARY 1948
REPLY TO SMUTS` STATEMENT ON INEQUALITY OF RACES: PRESS STATEMENT, FEBRUARY 1948
STATEMENT IN COURT BY DR. DADOO AND DR. G. M.
NAICKER, WHEN CHARGED WITH AIDING AND
ABETTING UNDER THE IMMIGRANTS REGULATION
ACT OF 1913, FEBRUARY 26, 1948
FAREWELL SPEECH ON EVE OF IMPRISONMENT, FEBRUARY 29, 1948
STATEMENT TO COURT BY DR. DADOO AND DR. G. M. NAICKER, MARCH 3, 1948
MESSAGE TO THE INDIAN COMMUNITY, MARCH 3, 1948
"APARTHEID OVER OUR DEAD BODIES:" SPEECH, JULY 1948 |
YUSUF MOHAMED DADOO
SOUTH AFRICA'S FREEDOM STRUGGLE
Statements, Speeches and Articles including Correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi - Edited by ES Reddy
Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South
African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading
the Indian community to link its destiny with that of the African
majority, in building the unity of all the oppressed people and
democratic whites of that country in a common struggle against
racism, in promoting fearless and militant resistance to the
oppressors, and in developing the international outlook of the
movement and international solidarity with it. He led the non-violent
Indian passive resistance movement - uniting Gandhians, Marxists
and others. He was a founder and leader of the Non-European United
Front, and of the Communist Party when it was revived as a clandestine
organisation. And since going into exile in 1960, he played a
key role in promoting underground and armed struggle in South
Africa and a world-wide anti-apartheid movement.
His contribution was recognised by the national Indian organisation
and by the Communist Party which elected him chairman. It was
acknowledged by the African National Congress which awarded him
its highest honour, Isitwalandwe-Seaparankoe in 1955, and elected
him the Vice-Chairman of its Revolutionary Council and later
of its Politico-Military Council. It was also recognised by the
racist regime which imprisoned and restricted him on numerous
occasions.
Dr. Dadoo began his political activities as a young pupil in
South Africa in his teens. Inspired by the spirit of defiance
of injustice that Mahatma Gandhi tried to impart in the Indian
community in South Africa, he took part in demonstrations against
anti-Indian measures by the racist regime and organised a meeting
of students to hear Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the Indian poet and
national leader, who saw, already in 1924, that the struggle
of the Indian community is linked with that of the African and
Coloured people. Though he came from a prosperous Indian family,
he developed a sense of solidarity with the African people suffering
inhuman exploitation, and took an interest in the African trade
union movement (ICU). He even helped African workers in his father's
business in their strike for better conditions.
In later years, during his sojourn in India and in Britain
as a student, he not only identified with the Indian national
movement and the anti-fascist and anti-colonial movements in
Europe but actively participated in them. He was first arrested
in 1929 in London in a demonstration for Indian freedom. The
unity of the oppressed people and democratic whites, advocated
by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the League against Imperialism,
and the united front against fascism which was espoused by progressive
leaders in Europe, were an inspiration to him. He saw clearly
that such unity was essential in the struggle against racism
in South Africa.
Returning to South Africa in 1936, he soon began to confront
the authorities, as well as the rich traders in the leadership
of the Indian Congresses who saw the future of the community
in an accommodation with the racist regime and kept aloof from
the struggle of the Africans. He began to organise the community
for resistance and at the same time pressed for unity with the
Africans and the Coloured people in a common struggle. In 1938-39
he became the founder and secretary of the Transvaal Non-European
United Front and leader of the Nationalist Group of the Transvaal
Indian Congress. Above all, he fully dedicated himself to the
struggle for freedom and equality for all the people of South
Africa. His first two trials in South Africa were, in fact, not
in the struggle of the Indian community but for his work as a
leader of Non-European United Front. From the dock of the racist
courts, he denounced the oppression and exploitation of all the
black people in South Africa. In 1944-45 he was associated with
Dr. A. B. Xuma, President of the African National Congress, in
a campaign against the humiliating pass laws imposed upon the
African people, and was again arrested for leading a procession ... READ MORE
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APPEAL FOR UNITED FRONT, JULY 1948
"INDIA'S STEP MOST TIMELY": JOINT STATEMENT BY DR. DADOO AND DR. NAICKER ON THE DECISION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA TO RAISE THE SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN QUESTION AGAIN BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JULY 1948
STATEMENT AT PRESS CONFERENCE HELD AT INDIA
LEAGUE, LONDON, OCTOBER 26, 1948
“SOUTH AFRICA - ON THE ROAD TO FASCISM”: PAMPHLET PUBLISHED JOINTLY WITH CASSIM JADWAT IN LONDON, NOVEMBER 1948
STATEMENT AT PRESS CONFERENCE IN LONDON,
JANUARY 25, 1949
"INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND U.N.O.": ARTICLE IN INDIAN NEWS CHRONICLE, DELHI, SEPTEMBER
25, 1949
“MARCH FORWARD, UNITED, THROUGH STRUGGLE TO FREEDOM”: STATEMENT ON RETURN TO SOUTH AFRICA, OCTOBER 1949
"MALAN CANNOT SUCCEED WHERE HITLER FAILED":
INTERVIEW TO THE GUARDIAN, CAPE TOWN,
JUNE 1950
TELEGRAM TO MRS. VIJAYALAKSHMI PANDIT, LEADER
OF THE INDIAN DELEGATION TO THE UNITED
NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950
STATEMENT WELCOMING THE RESOLUTION OF THE
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE TREATMENT
OF INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA, NOVEMBER 1950
"FIGHT FOR PEACE, DEMOCRACY AND AN END TO
EXPLOITATION": NEW YEAR MESSAGE, JANUARY 1, 1951
REPORT OF THE JOINT PLANNING COUNCIL OF THE
ANC AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN CONGRESS,
NOVEMBER 8, 1951
“OUST THE NATIONALISTS FROM POWER”: NEW YEAR MESSAGE, JANUARY 1952
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE TWENTIETH SESSION
OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN CONGRESS CONFERENCE,
JOHANNESBURG, JANUARY 25, 1952
LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MALAN, FEBRUARY 20, 1952
STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE FIRST BANNING ORDERS
UNDER THE SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISM ACT,
MAY 1952
STATEMENT AT INTERVIEW CONCERNING BANNING ORDER SERVED ON HIM UNDER THE SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISM ACT, MAY 1952
STATEMENT FROM THE DOCK BEFORE BEING SENTENCED IN JOHANNESBURG MAGISTRATE’S COURT FOR DEFYING BANNING ORDERS, JULY 1952
LETTER TO THE STAR, IN REPLY TO ARCHBISHOP DENIS HURLEY, NOVEMBER 1952
MESSAGE FROM MOSES M. KOTANE, WALTER SISULU,
J. B. MARKS AND DR. Y. M. DADOO READ AT THE
UNVEILING OF A MEMORIAL TO JOHANNES NKOSI IN DURBAN,
JULY 18, 1953
GREETINGS TO THE ASIAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE
IN BANDUNG, 1955
LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, APRIL 1955
APPEAL FOR FUNDS FOR NEW AGE, JANUARY 1956
STATEMENT ON THE PROCLAMATION OF GROUP AREAS IN JOHANNESBURG, AUGUST 1956
"RACIAL CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA": ADDRESS TO MEETING OF PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, MARCH 2, 1961
"FORCED WITHDRAWAL OF SOUTH AFRICA FROM THE
COMMONWEALTH - HISTORIC STEP FORWARD IN
STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID": MESSAGE FROM LONDON TO
THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE, MARCH 1961
“TH BELL IS TOLLING FOR APARTHEID”: NEW YEAR MESSAGE, 1962
"WHY THE SOUTH AFRICA UNITED FRONT FAILED:
DISRUPTIVE ROLE OF THE PAN AFRICANIST
CONGRESS": ARTICLE, MARCH 1962 |
