Yunus "YM" Mohamed (sometimes Mahomed) (12 June 1950 – 6 January 2008) was a South African lawyer and activist instrumental in founding the United Democratic Front (UDF).
[2] He joined the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1970, and later the South African Communist Party (SACP) and ANC.
[1] In 1976 he became an attorney, going on to work for the law firm of Shun Chetty, which had a record of defending anti-apartheid activists.
My experience of him was of a persuader not because he feared; on the contrary by the time we first met he had already tasted solitary confinement, but because he was so focused on success.
[2] Mohamed's partner, Dhaya Pillay,[1] is a senior judge in the Labour Court of South Africa.