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Seedat is the founder of Shura Yabafazi, a South African NGO that focuses on women in Muslim family law. Seedat has also worked with Equitas Human Rights Foundation, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, and UN Women Afghanistan. [1] [9] She has worked with the South African Muslim Personal Law Network, which works in conjunction with Musawah. [9]
Sa'diyya Shaikh was born in 1969 in Krugersdorp, South Africa to Indian Muslim parents. [3] [4] She grew up under the apartheid regime and witnessed the anti-apartheid movement which influenced her to seek liberatory readings of the Qur'an and the Islamic tradition.
After South Africa became a democracy in 1994, there has been a growing number of Muslim migrants from South Asia and North Africa; however, their numbers are fairly low. [ citation needed ] Most of the non-South African Muslims are urban dwellers and thus live in or near Cape Town , Durban , Port Elizabeth , East London , Kimberley , Pretoria ...
South Africa's small Muslim political party Al Jama-ah is gaining support due to the conflict in Gaza and sees itself as a potential coalition partner for the African National Congress after next ...
One of the prime movers behind this congregation was well-known South African Muslim women's rights activist Shamima Shaikh (1960–1998). A year earlier, Amina Wadud (see below) became the first woman in South Africa to deliver the jum'ah khutbah, at the Claremont Main Road Mosque in Cape Town.
South African Muslim activists (1 C, 6 P) F. South African former Muslims (2 P) I. South African imams (4 P) South African Islamists (2 C) S. South African Sufis (2 P)
[2] [3] The movement spread to Muslim women sharing sexual abuse experiences at other Muslim religious centers and holy places across the world such as at Jama Masjid, New Delhi, India. [4] The usage of the 'Me Too' in the movement stems from the Me Too movement , which gained worldwide prominence in October 2017, and is similar to the # ...
The Cape Malays (Afrikaans: Kaapse Maleiers, کاپز ملیس in Arabies script) also known as Cape Muslims [16] or simply Malays, are a Muslim community or ethnic group in South Africa. [ 11 ] The Cape Malay identity can be considered the product of a set of histories and communities as much as it is a definition of an ethnic group.