1. Abdullah Abdurahman was a South African politician and physician, born in Wellington, Cape Colony.
10 Facts About Abdullah Abdurahman
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Abdullah Abdurahman was the first Coloured city councillor of Cape Town, and the first ever Coloured South African to win election to a public body.
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Abdullah Abdurahman led the anti-segregationist movement African Political Organization established in 1902.
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Abdullah Abdurahman's grandparents were slaves, possibly from India, who had bought their freedom.
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Abdullah Abdurahman led a delegations to London to secure franchise rights for the Coloured population in 1906.
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In 1909, before the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman participated in a second delegation to London to try to have the Cape Qualified Franchise extended to all black South Africans.
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In 1925 Dr Abdullah Abdurahman was asked to lead a delegation to the Viceroy of India by the South African Indian Congress.
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On 2 February 1940, Abdullah Abdurahman died of a cardiac arrest.
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Abdullah Abdurahman's political legacy is a mixed one; modern, more radical commentators see him as overly accommodating to the white authorities, and as far as practical results are concerned, the achievements of his political career were limited.
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Abdullah Abdurahman was married twice: once to the British Helen Potter James, whom he met in Glasgow.