22 Facts About Ganief Hendricks

Mogamad Ganief Ebrahim Hendricks was born on 14 September 1949 and is a South African politician, businessman, lecturer and teacher who is a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa.

Ganief Hendricks is the founder and current leader of Al Jama-ah, a party for upholding Muslim interests in South Africa.

Ganief Hendricks was born on 14 September 1949 to Imam Shaikh Ebrahim Latiff from Durban and Ghairoennisaa Ally Ganief Hendricks from District Six.

Ganief Hendricks attended the Chapel Street Primary School and Trafalgar High School, but matriculated from Harold Cressy High School.

Ganief Hendricks earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Sociology and a honours degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of the Western Cape.

Ganief Hendricks is one of the founding members of the Muslim Students Association of South Africa and was an executive member of the Majlis-su-Shura Al Islami.

Ganief Hendricks was deputy chairperson of the Forum for Black Journalists and served as the General Secretary of the trade union for workers with sensory disorders.

Ganief Hendricks was a cricket manager and a national chess champion.

Ganief Hendricks worked with Hassen Howa in sport in District Six.

Ganief Hendricks was a lecturer at the University of the Western Cape and the Peninsula Technikon.

Ganief Hendricks was a teacher at Mount View High School, Bridgetown High School, Rosedale Primary School and Easter Peak Primary School.

Ganief Hendricks was chairperson of the Management and Leadership Development Association in Langa, Cape Town.

Ganief Hendricks worked as a Regional Personnel Manager and later a National Industrial Relations Specialist at Nestle for 18 years.

Ganief Hendricks was the deputy chairperson of an organisation that consisted of 300 affiliates of Muslim groups who all called for South Africa's first multiracial general elections in 1994 to be boycotted Ganief Hendricks later decided to vote in that election.

In 2002, Ganief Hendricks was given the 'Pioneer of the Internet in South Africa' award.

Ganief Hendricks founded Al Jama-ah in April 2007, a party intended to uphold Muslim rights and interests in South Africa.

Ganief Hendricks was elected to the Cape Town city council in 2011 as Al Jama-ah's sole councillor.

Ganief Hendricks was sworn into office using the first Quran written by Tuan Guru while he was imprisoned on Robben Island in the 1700s.

Ganief Hendricks serves on multiple committees, including the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour, the Portfolio Committee on Health, the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation, the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, and the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development.

In March 2021, Ganief Hendricks voted against establishing an ad-hoc committee to investigate Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office.

Ganief Hendricks became a non-voting member of the Committee for Section 194 Enquiry on 7 April 2021.

On 31 May 2021, Ganief Hendricks was announced as Al Jama-ah's mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town in the 2021 local government elections.