Based in South Africa, the Tambo-Dadoo Palestine Legal Fund aims to provide support to and campaign for the rights of Palestinian political prisoners and assistance to their families. Tambo was also a member of the National Action Committee that drafted the Freedom Charter, which was adopted at the Congress of the People in 1955. He was elected Secretary General of the ANC in 1954, and president o
f the movement in 1967. As head of the ANC’s mission in exile, he oversaw a growing number of South African exiles who joined the ANC; the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) military camps; setting up ANC offices around the world; the growth of an active global anti-apartheid movement; and the beginning of the process of negotiations with the South African apartheid government. He united the ANC ideologically and organisationally, ensuring that its armed wing was always under its political leadership and oversaw the broadening and diversifying of the organisation at times of the greatest repression by the apartheid state. (https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/oliver-reginald-kaizana-tambo)
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an exceptional role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century. He helped build the unity of all oppressed South Africans, as well whites who opposed apartheid, in a common struggle against racism. He led the South African indian passive resistance movement, bringing together people of diverse ideological persuasions. 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. In 1941, Dadoo was elected to the Central Committee of the SACP, on which he served for 42 years. He was one of three signatories of the “Doctors’ Pact”, which sought to united all Black people in a common struggle against apartheid. In 1953, he was elected chairperson of Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, a position he continued to hold after going into exile in 1960. He played a key role in developing the ANC’s underground movement and armed struggle in South Africa and the global anti-apartheid movement. (https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/dr-yusuf-mohamed-dadoo)
