Membership must be paid by means of an SMS which costs R10 and the balance of R5 must be paid at meetings called for members to collect their  paid up membership cards.When you send the SMS the automated system will record your mobile number and post it to the membership register. You are required to send your name, home address, email address, id number using your mobile number as a reference. This will automatically update the membership register. Our contact details are on the website which includes  an email to info@aljama.co.za or a fax to 021-5314273 or post to 1A Forest Place Pinelands 7405.

SMS THE WORD aljama to 38198

“HELP 1000 YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN IN PROVIDING BETTER SERVICE DELIVERY FOR YOU AND FOR THEIR OWN FUTURE”

Most young men and women between the ages of 18 to 24 are unemployed and face a bleak future. It is time that this section of society be given more opportunities. They are our future. Employers will be encouraged to give them jobs by getting a subsidy from the treasury  of about R1000 towards their monthly salary for at least two years. The Aljama-ah Political Party wants to take this further and help these young people to win seats as ward councillors in the 2011 municipal elections. The Party has launched a recruitment campaign to attract and select  young potential councillors, train them to be councillors and help them campaign to win seats. The Party has also launched an SMS fund raising project to get the community to help finance the recruitment, training and campaign costs of these young people who will come from all over the country.  A donation of R10 paid by the SMS will cover the R500 registration costs of the 1000 young people to contest the elections. The target for the campaign is a half a million rand. This will be a sound investment in our youth and the future of the community. In Cape Town the Party Leader Ganief Hendricks will challenge the current Democratic Alliance mayor to give our youngsters a better opportunity to get the votes to win as many seats as possible. His expertise as a Human Resources Specialist and awards for creating new generation jobs  will give him an edge over other mayoral candidates. Municipalities need more human resource development.  While it will be a contest between Dan Plato and Ganief Hendricks the winners will be our young men and women. Muslim and other  voters will be canvassed to vote for Ganief Hendricks rather than Dan Plato. The final mayoral candidate for the Party  and the candidates for councillors will be voted for by Party members when the election is called. The Party came 8^th out of 24 Parties in the 2009 national elections getting votes in 2000 voting stations in nine provinces.

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While Mandela promised that all Blacks will equally benefit from affirmative action which includes Indians and Coloureds, a year before  Polokwane the Minister of Labour introduced a regulation that for every Coloured and Indian worker employed two Africans must be employed to  get credits for substantive compliance in terms of annual Employment Equity reports which is normally submitted in October each year. This regulation has now been vigorously applied by employers keen on government contracts and points for BEEE and Indians and Coloureds especially in the Western Cape have felt it severely. Many employers have stopped employing Coloureds and Indians and only Africans to prepare for a five to one ratio in the future. Hardly any Coloureds or Indians in the Western Cape vote for the ANC anymore so they must favour their voters. For many years during apartheid the Cape was a coloured preferential employment area so this is seen as one way to redress the imbalances of the past.

Now that Muslims who form a large segment of the so called Coloured and Indian voters have chosen to vote for the DA who is largely a white controlled Party if one counts the heads and look at the faces in power the question is whether this will continue in the future. AL JAMA-AH  would like to believe that this will change and we will see these changes in the 2011 municipal  elections. It has to change if we want to avoid a black backlash against those who “helped put the whites in power”. We had a taste for this when another Muslim Party used their 3 votes to kick out Nomaindia of the ANC and install Helen Zille of the DA as mayor of Cape Town. “Ma slams what can we expect” is what she said and this message went out into the townships. Not long afterwards we had the zenophopic attacks when largely  Muslims were murdered.

While AL JAMA-AH is into the third year of its seven year plan to play an educational role to get Muslims to play a more meaningful role in the political life of the country it realises it has to speed up its campaigns to avoid further estrangement between Muslims and Africans especially in the Western Cape. For starters the Party will call on Muslim bricklayers and plasterers  and other artisans not to tease their African workers and colleaques about the ANC loss in the Western Cape. The party has engaged with Robben Islanders for advice and is considering a permanent base in Delft where Africans and Muslims live side by side. The Party leader has been accepted as a member of the Delft Farmers Association who produce vegetables and wants to help the Association get Muslim business men to buy from them. The Association has agreed to employ three unemployed Muslims in Delft as farm workers.  What has encouraged AL JAMA-AH is the strong support of the MJC for it to carry on with its educational role and the fact that members of the MJC has offered to help in this regard. A letter to the Editor  in the last issue of Muslim Views has given the party further encouragement when the writer wrote:

“ As a Black Muslim South African, I, in my personal capacity , find only brothers Manelisi Mampane of the PAC and  Ganief Hendricks  of the AL JAMA-AH political party  to be parties that are truly humane and prepared to face the gauntlet to stand for what they believe in. I sincerely make duah that Allah in his  infinate Wisdom helps them succeed in their endeavours for a better place for all humans on earth.”

Imam Sulaiman of Mamelodi  in  Pretoria has called and asked the Party not to wait  too long  to strenghten bonds and to join hands with African Muslims in the many townships which are waiting for them and whose elders who have already met to endorse the Party. Farouk Modisane a veteran activist who was born in Newclare in the ‘Malay” township of Newclare but grew up in Soweto has joined the party as an NEC member.

Just like the Muslims were the voice of  many of the oppressed in the 18th century it has the opportunity to once again ask them to  “CLAIM YOUR MUSLIM VOICE “.

LIMPOPO
MPUMALANGA
FREE STATE
NORTH WEST
NORTHERN CAPE
NORTHERN PROVINCE
WESTERN CAPE
EASTERN CAPE
KWAZULU NATAL

As part of its seven year plan AL JAMA-AH is gearing up to also contest the 2011 Municipal elections and the 2014 provincial and national elections so that it can be a partner in the 3 – PARTY state that will run the country. This is an early invitation calling for candidates to contest all these elections.

While AL JAMA-AH has its eye on helping to govern in 2014 it is campaigning to cut its teeth in the 2009 elections and get six(6) seats in the National Assembly, Western Cape Provincial legislature and the KwaZulu Provincial legislature and one seat each in the other seven(7) provincial legislatures.

Qualifications
University of The Western Cape
B.A. Hons (Industrial Psychology).
B.A. Majors(History & Sociology)

Publications
Co-Author – “Teachers Have Rights Too” with Professor N. Morgan

Editor: Unibel

Editor: Inqilaab

Companies:
Period of employment

Mweb Holdings (8 years)
Human Resources Director.
Given an award by Company as a pioneer of Internet in South Africa. Helped list Mweb on JSE

Nestle (SA) ) (PTY) Limited (18 years)
Regional Personnel Manager/National Industrial Relations Negotiator

Claremont VW Pty Ltd
Director (current)

Workers against RegressionTrade Union.(W.A.R.)                                                                                                                                      General Secretary (current)

University Western Cape (U.W.C.)                                                                                                                                                                         Editor Student Newspaper “Unibel”) 1974

Exco Member UWC Alumni Union Member

Member Commission on Racism & Sexism – Transformation Forum, UWC

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

1. Founder President Muslim Students Association of South Africa.(7 years)                                                                                                    2. Executive Committee Member of Majlisush Shura Al Islami (Muslim Parliament) 22 years and Vice President.                              3. Appointed by Inamullah Khan of Rabita as Founding Director of Islamic Council of SA (ICSA)                                                            4. Director of Grassroots Educare(5 years)

5. First Deputy Chair of Islamic Unity Convention (7 years)                                                                                                                                   6. First Chair of Radio 786 Committee, PRO and Host of Labour Talkshow  (13 years)                                                                                  7. Naledi ea Meso African Publishing House                                                                                                                                                         Director(current)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   8. Party Leader and founder AL JAMA-AH (current)                                                                                                                                               9. “Free Mandela Campaign” activist in Muslim community.