Death
Yusuf died of prostate cancer on 19 September 1983. Before his death, he attempted to arrange with Joe Slovo to have his body smuggled to South Africa for burial as an act of defiance, but this plan failed. Instead, he was given a Muslim burial (at his behest) and interred at Highgate Cemetery alongside fellow Muslim Communist, Iraqi Saad Saadi Ali, and a few metres away from the grave of Karl Marx. His dying words were "You must never give up, You must fight to the end."
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