Mogamad Ganief Ebrahim Hendricks was born and raised in District Six.

He is the Leader of Al Jama-ah party he founded in 2007. Al Jama-ah is the only Muslim political party to have obtained a seat in Parliament. Mr Hendricks is a tsaunch sunni who learned his Aqeeda from the best Ulema.

He was exposed to politics at a very young age by his activist mother, Gairooneesa Ally Hendricks. His deceased parents were Imam Shaikh Ebrahim Latiff from Durban and Ghairoenisaa who was also known as Mrs Shaikh. During the 1960s the Latiff family was forced to change their surname to Hendricks to avoid being deported to Natal. Hendricks maternal and paternal grandparents hailed from Johannesburg where they were anti-apartheid activists.

As a young boy he accompanied his mother on visits to political prisoners and meetings. Often, he had to give up his bed to “visiting” political activists on the run from the security; and to the Gogos who travelled to Cape Town to visit their loved ones incarcerated on Robben Island.

Guest: Ganief HendricksLeader of Al Jama-ah 

Guest: Ganief Hendricks speaks to Advocate Yusuf Dalwai on Registration of Muslim Marriages Bill