Farida Mahomed | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 15 August 2013 –May 2014 | |
Constituency | Gauteng |
In office May 1996 –May 2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 February 1955 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Farida Mahomed (born 2 February 1955) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) as a backbencher in the National Assembly from 1996 to 2009 and later from 2013 to 2014.
Mahomed was born on 2 February 1955. [1]
Mahomed was not initially elected to Parliament in the 1994 general election, [2] but she joined the caucus during the legislative term,in 1996,to fill a casual vacancy. [3] She served three consecutive terms in the seat,gaining election to full terms in 1999 [1] and 2004. [4] She was a member of the project committee on Muslim personal law established by the Law Commission to draft the Muslim Marriages Bill. [5]
In the 2009 general election,Mahomed was not initially re-elected to her seat. However,she returned on 15 August 2013,when she was sworn in to the assembly to fill the casual vacancy arising from Loretta Jacobus's resignation. [6] In the general election the next year,she was ranked 35th on the ANC's regional party list for Gauteng and she again lost her seat. [7]
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