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Yusuf Dadoo: Bafa Begiya - A thesis submitted to the Facility of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Masters by Research in Political Studies by Shauna Mottiar
Within the field of political biography, Yusuf Dadoo is an interesting study. His political career spans the spectrum. Politicised from an early age, he grew up in a small Transvaal mining town where racial divisions were marked, witnessing his own father's battle with segregation he then schooled in India where he encountered the growing nationalism among the youth who were influenced by Gandhi, completing his medical degree in England he came under the influence of the communists and the anti imperialists. Back in South Africa he headed an Indian Social Reform Society which, having an early demise and a small membership advocated that the Indian community align itself more affirmatively within modern society ...read more
- Young, Gifted and Black: Oral Histories of Young Activists in Cape Town and Durban in the early 1970s [pdf ] by Carmel T. M. Chetty
- The deployment of racism in South Africa [htm] or [pdf document] - by Rooha Variava
- Teacher Associations in “Indian” Schools in the Transvaal - Case Studies to consider the role of Teacher Associations in the maintenance of, and resistance against, authority. By Y. I. Eshak (1982)
- Now You Have Touched The Women - African Women’s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 - by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
- A Jurisprudential analysis of Civil Disobedience in South Africa - by Christoffel Hendrik Heyns
- Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
- The Wankie Campaign: The ANC's first armed military operation: July - September 1967 - by Nicky Van Driel
- The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa 1924-1946 - by Essop Pahad
- Conscript to their Age: African National Congress Operational Strategy, 1976-1986 - by Howard Barrell
- The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - By Riashnee Pather
- Photography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa.
- Critism and Censorship in the South African "Alternative" Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985 - 1990) - by Mario Pissarra
- Protest Art in South Africa 1968 - 1976: A Study of its production, context and reception - by Erica Clark
- An Investigation into Vigilantes and Political Violence in KwaZulu-Natal, 1985 - 1994 - by Javulani stanley Baloyi
