Trader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Trader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies

On 27 August 1944, a pioneer wholesaler, trader, philanthropist and devout Muslim, Mohamed Hajee Joosub, died in Pretoria. Joosub left his birth place Ranavav, India where he was born in 1862, at the age of 14. He undertook a voyage to South Africa in 1876 and opened a general dealer’s in 1883. He had befriended Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi while the latter was still in India and when Gandhi came to South Africa; Joosub became the agent for people to contact him. Joosub died suddenly, a few days after his wife. He was survived by seven sons and five daughters.

How we know this

01South Africa, 2011. ‘Muhammed Hajee Joosub’, [online] Available at :www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu [Accessed 22 August 2011]
02Bramdaw, D., 1936. “Joosub, Mahamed Hajee”, from The South African Indian Who’s Who, 1936 [online]. Available at :www.scnc.ukzn.ac.za [Accessed 22 August 2011]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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