Cachalia is a surname of Indian origin and may refer to:
Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo OMSG 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.
Naidoo is a South African Indian surname. It is an alternative spelling of Naidu. Notable people with the surname include:
Meer may refer to:
Gumede is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Sisulu is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
De Bruyn is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname. "Bruyn" or "bruijn" is an archaic spelling of "bruin", meaning "brown". People with the name include:
Ismail Ahmed, Ismaeel Ahmed or Esmaeel Ahmad may refer to:
Amina CachaliaOLB was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist, and politician. She was a longtime friend and ally of former President Nelson Mandela.
Ismail Ahmed Cachalia (1908-2003), popularly known as Moulvi, was a South African political activist and a leader of Transvaal Indian Congress and the African National Congress. He was one of the leaders of the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946 and the Defiance Campaign in 1952. The Government of India awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1977.
Azhar Cachalia is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and former anti-apartheid activist for the United Democratic Front.
Ghaleb Cachalia is a South African businessman and former Member of Parliament (MP). He is the son of anti-Apartheid activists Amina and Yusuf Cachalia, and a relative of former African National Congress (ANC) MP Ismail Mahomed Cachalia.
Dr. Zainab Asvat was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Asvat was trained as a medical doctor, but was politically active most of her life.
Zuma is a South African surname. Outside of South Africa, it is also prevalent in several other African countries and in Brazil.
Mkhize is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Firoz Cachalia is a South African lawyer and politician who was a Member of the Gauteng Executive Council from 2004 to 2010. Formerly an anti-apartheid activist in the Transvaal, he first joined the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1994, representing the African National Congress, and he served as Speaker of the provincial legislature from 1999 to 2004. After he left the provincial government he was appointed as a law professor at Wits University and, from 2022, as the chairperson of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council.
Ismail Mahomed Cachalia is a retired South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2009. He also served an earlier partial term in the first democratic Parliament.
Ismail Cachalia may refer to:
Yusuf Mohamed Cachalia was a South African anti-apartheid activist. He was the secretary of the South African Indian Congress, in which capacity he played a central role in organising the 1952 Defiance Campaign.