Al Jama-ah MP Adv Shameemah Salie was invited to address the ladies of Al Nur on the importance of women in Islam, our role in spreading dawah through our good deeds and the importance of uplifting and empowering both ourselves and those around us.
AL JAMA-AH In Collaboration with the Paarl Museum hosted the book launch with Gaireyah Fredericks, author of: “een voet innie kabr,” on 10 August 2024 at Paarl Museum in Paarl.
The Paarl writer, poet and author of the book, “een voet innie kabr” (one foot in the grave), Gaireyah Fredericks, could not hide her emotions at the first local launch of her book. The book has been launched in other towns and cities, but not in Paarl, her hometown. One of Fredericks four sons, Yaghya Appollis, rendered the opening prayer at the event and another son, Uzair gave a moving account on his mother’s several sacrifices made to pursue her studies and writings.
AL JAMA-AH’s Member of the Western Cape Legislature, Hon Maulana Galil Brinkhuis rendered a recital of the “Salaams” (Greetings of Peace on Prophet Muhammad) before the programme officially started.
The Deputy Minister of Social Development and President of Al Jama-ah Party Hon Ganief Hendricks, said the long queues which pensioners must endure at Sassa offices, are unacceptable. Hendricks said there must be comfortable facilities to allow the elderly to make online applications for pension. He said he would make it the responsibility of all councillors to establish such a facility to assist the elderly with online applications for pension. “These facilities must have a ‘hospitality suite’ with couches, coffee and tea to serve the elderly. I will not hesitate to fire Al Jama-ah councillors who fail to carry out this task and will call on other political parties to do the same with their non-performing councillors,” said Hendricks.
AL JAMA-AH’s Member of Parliament Hon Adv Shameemah Salie, paid tribute to the South African women who stood up against oppression, the writers, authors and journalists who were either detained, tortured, and those whose works were banned, and those who were banished into exile. She further paid tribute to the Palestinian women and Resistance fighters in their struggle against occupation and genocide. “Like South African anti-apartheid activists and struggle writers and poets were silenced by the apartheid government, the Zionist entity is using the most brutal and inhumane acts to not only kill ordinary Palestinians, but poets, writers and journalists too,” she said.
Salie called on the South African government to implement a total boycott, disinvestment and sanctions against apartheid Israel. A blind student of Fredericks, Rachel Davids read in braille a moving Praise poem in Afrikaans for Fredericks. Her sons Diya-Udeen and Jamel-Udeen Japhta delivered a message of gratitude to all those who supported their mother throughout her challenging times.
Fredericks spoke at length on what inspired her to write “een voet innie kabr” which consists of many personal accounts with family, friends and the Muslim community’s use of the Afrikaans, Malay and Arabic languages to express themselves. She thanked Al Jama-ah for hosting the local launch of her book and for the collaboration of Paarl Museum.
So much to celebrate, and yet always with the underlying awareness that everything we are doing is for the people. So, we met to celebrate the victories – to honour Hon.Ganief Hendricks, newly appointed Deputy Minister of Social Development, MPL Galil Brinkhuis, Advocate Hon.Shameemah Salie, and Advocate Yusuf Khan Dalwai – and to discuss the way forward.
We gathered to unpack and discuss the issues affecting our communities, that of unemployment, crime, drug abuse and poverty. That is after all what Al Jama-ah stands for! Justice, equality, compassion, community!
So, lets go forward addressing issues facing this country as family issues. Our families issues. Where every decision we make and every response comes out of that place. Where we are invested in bringing about change for good >
Nakba Day, which was observed on 15 May 2024, is a commemoration of the Nakba – the Palestinian Catastrophe – which comprised the onset of the destruction of Palestinian life and society upon their homeland from1948, causing the violent and widespread tragic displacement of the majority of the Palestinian people.
The violation of the Palestinian people started here, in 1948, with the blueprints for this violent colonial project already taking root in the early 1900’s and given public expression through the Balfour Declaration published on 2 November 1917.
It was this undeniably unjust, cruel and unlawful declaration, on a worthless piece of paper, between two key roleplayers within the entities which set themselves up as the superpowers of their time, that caused the domino effect in the destruction of Palestine.
Al Jama-ah was categorically the FIRST political party to place the Palestinian cause on the Parliamentary agenda. The party further is the only party that rejects the double-edged policy which aims to force an unsustainable, unfeasible and unjust narrative on the elusive red-herring: the two-state solution.
Among its public engagements and stand for the rights of Palestine to be free from colonisation, and safe from genocide, Al Jama-ah regularly publicly protests against the Zionist project in Palestine and within our own borders, participates in media platforms and refuses their patronage to all Zionist companies which sponsor the bloody genocide of our Palestinian people.
In joining the commemoration of Nakba Day, Al Jama-ah hosted a motorcade through Factreton, Kensington and Maitland, and thereafter, made its way to sign the Pledge in support of the liberation of Palestine, at the Cape of Good Hope Castle.
Al Jama-ah urgently calls for the protection of the Palestinian people, for Sanctions against the Israeli Occupying Forces for the atrocities they are committing in Palestine, including Genocide and other International Crimes.
The Party further urges that similar smart sanctions be effected against business and states that are aiding and abetting and are otherwise complacent in these crimes.
See below >> The Al jama-ah campaigning team in Cape Town showing their support for Palestine
Advocate Shameemah Salie and National Spokesperson for Al jama-ah signs a pledge on the 18th May,which was hosted at the Castle of Good Hope in commemoration of Nakba Day.
The Al jama-ah campaigning team in Cape Town hosted a successful motorcade into Kengsington and Maitland.
The Al jama-ah campaigning team in Cape Town hosted a successful motorcade into Kengsington and Maitland.
Al Jama-ah joined the commemoration of Nakba Day on the 18th May at the Castle of Good Hope. The group made its way to sign the Pledge in support of the liberation of Palestine, at the Cape of Good Hope Castle.
Al Jama-ah urgently calls for the protection of the Palestinian people, and for Sanctions against the Israeli Occupation Forces for the atrocities they are committing in Palestine, including Genocide and other International Crimes.
The Party further urges that similar smart sanctions be effected against businesses and states that are aiding and abetting, and are otherwise complacent in these crimes.
Adv.Shameemah Salie, National Spokesperson for Aljama-ah signed the pledge on behalf of Al jama-ah.
For Al Jama-ah our stance is clear we are in solidarity with the people of Palestine and will continue to fight for the Freedom of Palestine for we know all too well that, “our Freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”- Nelson Mandela
The President of the party Honourable Ganief Hendricks has taken the lead in Parliament to address several issues on the continued genocide being committed against the Palestinians. Al Jama-ah has constantly demanded for and subsequently voted for the expulsion of the ambassador of the unlawful state of Israel. Honourable Ganief Hendricks has raised concerns in parliament on International Children’s day surrounding the plight of the children in lieu of the slogan for every child, every right yet thousands of children are being massacred in Palestine and are suffering and being denied these rights.
In our solidarity campaign with the Palestinians, Al Jama-ah has been actively involved in attending and coordinating, several marches, awareness programs and protests around South Africa in solidarity with Palestine as well as creating awareness through social media platforms and assisting with aid to Gaza.
Cllr Thapelo Ahmad duly reminded South Africa in an interview as to their obligation to the Palestinians, “Palestine was one of the states that assisted South Africa. They deployed every resource that they had even though they were under siege by the same apartheid regime like ourselves in South Africa. They brought everything they had to us in that in our liberation we would not forget them. It is thus an issue of principle, solidarity for Palestine is an obligation to us they are our friends.”
Cllr Imraan Moosa at picket at Israeli embassy emphasised that, “We stand totally against the oppression of the Palestinians. We call upon Israel, the American government and UK government to stop the genocide and oppression against the Palestinians. We as South Africans are proud that we have been through an apartheid struggle. But our apartheid struggle was not like the apartheid struggle of Palestinians. They are being bombarded, they don’t have water, and they don’t have electricity nor health services. This is not a war it is total oppression”.
Al Jama-ah recognises the right of Palestinians to resist against their oppressors.
Al Jama-ah invited Hamas and other resistance fightrs to Parliament wherein crucial information was shared by the resistance on the condition that the people of Palestine found themselves in and the extent of the atrocities being committed.
The relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza strip as of 7th of October has led to death toll for the people of Gaza of over 20 000 martyred, more than 42 000 injured, over 300000 homes destroyed, and over 250 000 partially destroyed a 1000 families wiped off the population registry, medical care workers and journalists deliberately killed and arrested.
The bombing of schools, universities, museums, mosques and churches a deliberate attempt at destroying the history, culture and future of the Palestinians
The Zionist has cut electricity, food, water, and fuel supplies to Gaza. They have bombed hospitals and places of safety in Gaza with a clear intent to create both famine and a health crisis in Gaza.
There is no doubt that the war crimes being committed is in order to disposes the land from the Palestinians and to subject them to extreme hardships, to destroy their future, history and the culture.
Palestinians suffers in the broader Palestine under constant attacks by the IDF soldiers and settlers theft of land and property, murder, arrests and incarceration of men, women and children with the most horrific of tortures detailed by those who were released during period of negotiations.
Al JAMA-AH spokesperson Adv. Shameemah Salie has been actively involved in protests and marches for Palestine for many years and has alongside fellow legal professionals assisted pro-Palestinian activists who are being targeted by Pro-Israel supporters and law enforcement. Adv. Salie duly notes, “As we heed the heart-breaking genocide unfold in Gaza. We have witnessed in South Africa how the Zionist tentacles have spread through our country operating through Pro Israel political parties such as the Democratic Alliance, Patriotic alliance, ACDP,Cope , Bosa, Freedom Front Plus, Cape Exit and the rest of the moon-shot pact. The gentrification, economic oppression, purchasing and selling of City lands to Zionist, oppressive bylaws and implementation thereof, as well as excessive force by law enforcements has raised a red alert in South Africa surrounding the true intentions of these parties. We should awaken from our slumber and not be voting for these parties who are remnants of our apartheid government of the past. We cannot support those who support genocide and oppression”
Al Jama-ah calls for an:
– Immediate and permanent ceasefire
– Countries around the world to provide medical convoys to assist the injured in Gaza
– End to discussions on a two state solution which has been used for decades by the unlawful occupiers to commit their atrocities against Palestine
– Open the borders and allow for increased quality aid to be allowed into Gaza.
– South Africa to cut trade with unlawful occupiers and impose sanctions
– Demand that the Government and National Prosecuting authority prosecutes all South Africans serving in the IDF
– Demand that all involved in the atrocities against Palestine be held accountable in the International Court for war crimes
– That South Africa mobilise and provide arms for the Palestinian resistance
– Do not stop speaking about and sharing information on Palestine
We are the voice of every child, every elder, every women and man of Palestine.
We demand return of the land to the rightful owners the Palestinians
“But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”
Nelson Mandela
JOIN THE MARCH: SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER 2023
NEED TO KNOW: ON WEDNESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2023
Gather:10:00
Where: Town Centre Field (opposite Police Station)
Westgate Mall
Watergate Field (Next to Salaamudien Mosque)
End: 12:00
Where: Cnr of AZ Berman & Morgenster Road, Lentegeur
Al Jama-ah Party reaffirms its full support to occupied Palestine and calls on all South Africans to support the AL AQSA FLOOD and all resistance fighters in the war against the Zionist occupiers and settlers.
Al Jama-ah calls on all justice and freedom loving nations to support the righteous solidarity campaigns in support of these resistance fighters to drive out the occupiers and settlers from Palestinian land! The party stresses that no one should forget the violent terrorist acts of the Zionists terrorists against the Palestinians since before 1948
