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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.
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]
She held the position until she resigned in the middle of 1996. Under Shaikh's leadership, the MYM Gender Desk rapidly became the most outspoken Muslim organisation on the question of Muslim women's rights and gender within the Muslim community and the leading organisation in the South African articulation of Islamic feminism.
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 ...
He steered the movement in a way that increased its political activism during the anti-apartheid struggle and, with Shaikh and others, founded the Muslim Youth Movement Gender Desk, the foremost organization promoing Muslim women's rights in South Africa at the time.
Women's Legal Centre Trust v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others is a 2009 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.The court dismissed an application for direct access lodged by the Women's Legal Centre, which sought an order directing the President and Parliament to pass legislation to provide for the recognition of Muslim marriages.
The South and Southeast Asians constituted the Muslim establishment in the colony, and the newly freed slaves subsequently adopted the Malay language used by the Asians. [7] Thus, Malay was the initial lingua franca of Muslims, though they came from East Africa, Madagascar, and India as well as Indonesia, and established the moniker "Malay" for ...
South Africa: 1960: 1998: South African activist, member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, proponent of Islamic gender equality [103] Shahla Sherkat: Iran: 1956 – journalist: Nasrin Sotoudeh: Iran: 1963 – human rights lawyer [104] Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal: Turkey: 1963: human rights activist [105] Zil-e-Huma Usman: Pakistan ...