Cllr Asghar Khan – Aljama-ah Muslim Political Party

Asghar Khan: Dedicated advocate of the marginalized

Asghar Khan from Umdoni Municipality in KZN is known for his dedication to community development and social justice. As a seasoned politician with a track record of advocating for marginalized groups, he brings a wealth of experience to the provincial legislature.

At the Provincial Legislature in KZN, Khan’s presence is expected to bring a focus on issues such as poverty alleviation, infrastructure development, and equitable access to resources. His commitment to transparency and accountability will likely lead to more effective governance and increased responsiveness to the needs of constituents.

Moreover, Khan’s emphasis on inclusivity and consultation means that he will strive to represent the diverse voices within his constituency, ensuring that their concerns are heard and addressed in the legislative process. Overall, his tenure at the Provincial Legislature is anticipated to bring about positive change and improved quality of life for the people of KZN.

Khan’s transition from the Umdoni Municipality to the KZN Provincial legislature brings promise of impactful change.Khan’s experience as a councillor equips him with a nuanced understanding of local issues. Khan has shown practically that the lives of the people of Kzn can be improved through the leadership of Al Jama-ahs villagers League which he chairs. The league has delivered 3 critical programs in KZN that has brought a tangible changectomthe lives of the people.

Peanut Butter factory in KwaDukuza
Vegetable farm in Msunduzi.
Empowerment programs in Umdoni.

The above are a testament to his hard work and determination to see a better life for all.

At the provincial level, he’ll advocate for improved service delivery, infrastructure development, and enhanced social welfare programs. His focus on transparency and inclusivity could foster a more responsive government, addressing the needs of diverse communities across KZN. Through collaboration and effective representation, Khan has the potential to enact policies that benefit both urban centers and rural areas, bridging gaps and promoting equitable growth throughout the province.

The Work of the Villagers League?

AL JAMA-AH VILLAGERS LEAGUE

Developing Rural Villages into Smart Villages

Al Jama-ah Villagers league was created for the sole purpose of taking programs to rural areas to ensure development of rural areas and improving the lives of residents of these areas.

The Villagers League held its first meeting in Umzinto, KZN in February 2022. We gathered Al Jama-ah public representatives and National Leadership including the NWC and NEC under the theme “Turning rural villages into Smart Villages”.

Al Jama-ah Villagers League has over 60 villages across the country that they are assisting in rural upliftment.

Al Jama-ah is the only political party that has a Villagers League that cares for the Villages in South Africa.

AL JAMA-AH VILLAGERS LEAGUE CURRENT PROJECTS:

* Farming And Agriculture- Pietermaritzburg, KZN
* Sewing Project- Umzinto, KZN
* Each One Feed One Campaign- Umzinto, KZN ´
* Grouteville Peanut Butter Factory-Stanger, KZN
* Fishing Village- Mpame (Eastern Cape)
* Shiluvane Sports Tournaments- Limpopo
* Soup Kitchen- Drakenstein, Western Cape
* Wheeelchair Project- Harding, KZN
* School Shoes Drive- Mtubatuba

FARMING AND AGRICULTURE-PIETRMARITZBURG, KZN

* Al Jama-ah Villagers League is fulfilling its mandate of developing the lives of people in the rural and underdeveloped areas of South Africa.
* Pictured on the next page is one of our farms where 50 000 vegetable plants have been planted. The produce will be sold by the locals to earn a living for themselves and they will reinvest this creating sustainable development. The farm is running over 3 hectares of land. Al Jama-ah Villagers league – developing sustainable livelihoods – developing lives!

GROUTEVILLE PEANUT BUTTER FACTORY-STANGER, KZN

Al Jama-ah has created a platform for unemployed women in Stanger to open a peanut butter factory. The project has been funded by Al Jama-ah. This initiative is for women empowerment in communities and has created job opportunities for many women in the community The project is run and managed by the Al Jama-ah Women’s League President, Ma Veli Luthuli.

SEWING PROJECT- UMZINTO, KZN

Al Jama-ah Launches Innovative Sewing Campaign, Empowering Umdoni’s Women through Material Support to Co-ops and Small Businesses
* Al Jama-ah, a leading community-oriented political organization, is thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking sewing campaign that not only empowers local women in Umdoni but also supports cooperative enterprises and small businesses within the community.

MPAME FISHING VILLAGE- EASTERN CAPE

Mpame Village is a village located in rural Eastern Cape, on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The village is poverty stricken and residents identified that there is an opportunity to make use of the ocean for economic development. Thus, Al Jama-ah assisted the co-op with acquisition of a fishing vessel, training and a cold storage unit. The co-op is functional and thus are making use of the program to enhance their lives through better standards.

WHEELCHAIR DRIVE – HARDING AND UMZINTO, KZN

* Al Jama-ah in Harding and Umzinto has donated wheelchairs to the community members that are in need of them.
* Many elderly or disabled community members are unable to afford wheelchairs.
* Al Jama-ah changed their lives by providing them with their needs.

YOUTH SPORTS TOURNAMENTS

Annually, Al Jama-ah hosts sports tournament for the youth in different areas of the country. So far, the tournament has been held in Madibeng Municipality in Northwest Province, Shiluvane Village in Limpopo and Mtubatuba Village in KwaZulu Natal. These tournaments are hosted to encourage youthful activities in the area and assist the community with fighting drug and alcohol abuse in their communities.

SOUP KITCHEN-DRAKENSTEIN, WESTERN CAPE

Al Jama-ah Councilor Stulweni in Drakenstein, Paarl assists the community with fighting hunger. Every week he hosts a soup kitchen in his community and donates food hampers to the community.

EACH ONE FEED ONE CAMPAIGN

Al Jama-ah is hosting an ‘Each one Feed one’ campaign at the different Offices across the country.

Members from the community that can donate, or sponsor hampers or items of food deliver them at our office, and we distribute it to community members who leave their names at the office if they are in need of food.

The campaign is growing well, and we are helping to fight hunger in our communities.

SCHOOL SHOES DRIVE- MTUBATUBA

Al Jam-ah has donated pairs of school shoes to children that are disadvantaged.

We care for the lives and better for school children as they are the future of our country!

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DONATION BANKING DETAILS:

Bank: Nedbank
Account Name: Al Jama-ah
Branch: Pinelands
Branch Code: 198765
Account Number: 1202085571
Cheque Account

AL JAMA-AH’s Lawmakers stand out in 3 tiers of government:

Several of Al Jama-ah’s lawmakers in the three tiers of government have made great strides in being elected on committees which address fundamental Issues affecting communities at local, provincial, national and international level

The party has good reason to be proud of its lawmakers who have made great strides leading to their representations on various committees. These include Member of Parliament, Hon Ganief Hendricks; Member of Provincial Legislature WC: Hon Galil Brinkhuis; Executive Mayor City of Johannesburg, Kabelo Gwamanda, Ward Councillor Imraan Moosa; and its PR Councillors

in KwaZulu-Natal, Asghar Khan and G.M Cele; and in the City of Cape Town (CoCT) Adv Shameemah Salie.

Apart from several other achievements made to benefit the party’s constituencies, Hendricks was a delegate and member of the SA Parliamentary delegation at the recent BRICS summit held in Johannesburg; Brinkhuis was selected by the WC Legislature to form part of a delegation to the 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference which took place in Ghana over the last few days.

In the ‘city of gold’ and South Africa’s largest economic hub, Gwamanda was elected by a coalition of opposition parties to lead the CoJ as mayor and the party’s ‘beloved’ ward councillor in Lenasia, Johannesburg, Moosa, is the Chairperson of Johannesburg’s Environment and Infrastructure Services which comprises the City Power, Water and PickItup services.

Furthermore, the party’s PR councillors, Asghar Khan in KwaZulu-Natal is the Chairperson of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee; and Cele has been elected earlier this year as Chief Whip at the Umuziwabantu Local Municipality; Adv Salie was this week appointed by the CoCT executive mayor to serve on the Area Local Drug Action Committee.

Al Jama-ah’s CEO, Professor Haron says the party is proud of its Lawmakers’ progress which is indicative of their hard work and commitment to serve the people.

Adv. Shameemah Salie Cell: 084 423 0476

National Marketing and Communication Manager
Ms Nisa Siers: Cell: 082 613 1917

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Villagers League Report: Cllr Asgar Khan | June – September 2023

VILLAGERS LEAGUE REPORT

UMDONI MUNICIPALITY | KWA-ZULU NATAL

SEPTEMBER

In Umdoni area, Cllr Asghar is hosting an ‘Each one Feed one’ campaign at the Umzinto Offices. Members from the community that can donate, or sponsor hampers or items of food deliver them at our office and we distribute to community members who leave their names at the office if they are in need of food. The campaign is growing well, and we are helping to fight hunger in our community.

This month we were sponsored with R2500 for our campaign, and we created hampers for the community.

We have recruited a new paid-up member from Mthwalume to assist us in campaigning as well as two others in Braemar. They are excited and proud to join Al Jama-ah.

The Al Jama-ah Umzinto Offices continues to assist the community with Indigent free water applications and rates applications and thus far has written off approximately R900 000 worth of water bills from several community members. The office is opened to the public if they require any needs of assistance or service delivery.

JUNE

On the 16th of June community members volunteered in helping Al Jama-ah package food parcels for an area in Umdoni called Riverside Park. This area did not have electricity for 9 consecuve days and all their food got spoiled and damaged. Cllr Khan in Umdoni received a donation from Ashraful Aid to help sponsor over 300 households in the area that got affected with the shortage of electricity. The votng staton officers, Jeffery and Zakia assisted with distributing the hampers to the people of Riverside Park.

Cllr Khan also sponsored medals for a sports tournament to a school in Braemar in honour of Youth Month. The school was highly appreciated by that initative and thanked Al Jama-ah for their contributions.

The two voting station officers in Umdoni has signed up over 1150 membership forms for Al Jama-ah since April 2023 till date.

The Al Jama-ah Umzinto Offices continues to assist the community with Indigent free water applications and rates applications. The office is opened to the public if they require any needs or service delivery.

MR COMFORT | MATUBATUBA

From April to June, he has managed to sign 400 membership forms and also recruited 4 villages to join Al Jama-ah. He met them and they are with us now. On the 16th of June they had a top event which includes netball, soccer and senior citizen fun walk. They also invited Mtubatuba Spar and they promised to give them school shoes for children. Nedbank, Old mutual, Ahri and Amathole funeral came to support our event.

MA LUTHULI | GROUTEVILLE

September

They are waitng for the results of the request from DUT for the testng of the Peanut Butter. She attended the workshop in Empangeni. It was very informative. The fund imposes very stringent requirements but we they will try.

June | July

She attended a workshop hosted by the NDA in which they were assessing NPOs, NGOs and co-operative. They explained ways in which they fund these. On Saturday they will attend a big concert in Kranskop. They will interact with the Ngoni FM and the community of Kranskop.

There will also going to be training by NDA of Governance:

– Financial Management
– Resource mobilization
– Project management
– Conflict Management and Committee training

They are waiting for the results of the request from DUT for the testing of the Peanut Butter. She attended the workshop in Empangeni. It was very informative. The fund imposes very stringent requirements but we they will try.

ML ABDUL AZIZ | PIETERMARITZBURG

Ml Abdul Aziz met with a school in Mashingeni Village in Mpopomeni.
There’s a hall in Mashingeni Village that needs to be rebuilt as the community requests this.
Community uses the spring water for drinking, washing etc.
Sheikh Muhammad Dili and wife Khadija Zuma Garden project.
Garden project for Mr David one of their members which has started recently.
He met chief Zuma. He is the chief of the village and made appointment for a meeting on Sunday 2 of July 2023. He lives on the upper part of the village and has indicated that water problem is worse there.

Villagers League Report | October 2023

VILLAGERS LEAGUE REPORT

KWA-ZULU NATAL

UMDONI MUNICIPALITY

CLLR ASGHAR KHAN & ADELLE

We hosted the Al Jama-ah KZN Region finance policy workshop at the Umzinto office which was presented by the Al Jama-ah accountant, Mr. Waleed Davids. The KZN region staff were in attendance.

Riaz Randeree assisted us in Umdoni by receiving a donation of 100 rolls of fabric with a total value of R45 000. We will supply this fabric to unemployed skilled women who have sewing machines as a way to increase job creation in the community.

RIAZ RHANDEREE – FUND RAISER AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER

Riaz Randeree assisted us in gettng 100 rolls of fabric to the value of R45 000, shoes to the value of R7500, clothing to the value of R2500 and also assisting Ml Milanzi with office furniture to the value of R10 000.

His project plan is together with Cllr Asghar Khan and NEC Member Mr. Faizal Khan.

With the fabric, Raiz Randeree and Cllr Asghar Khan plan on signing up a minimum of 10 paid up members per roll. This will be a sustainable programme so that the unemployed skilled workers can come on their feet with the fabric we provided them. The programme is all about empowerment.

Riaz plans on gettng clothing manufacturers to sponsor us machines so that we can start up sewing classes at the Umzinto Office. He also attended the Finance Policy workshop in Umzinto.

PIETERMARITZBURG

ML ABDUL AZIZ

Their work this month is focusing on gettng new recruits and also visiting their villages reminding members to pay their fees. Villages covered are Edendale ward 12, Sinathing, Nhlazathe and Honeyville.

They bought 50kgs of potato seeds for their members in Mashingeni at the cost of R600.

They attended the policy Workshop in Umzinto and had the privilege of Riaz Randeree and Mr Waleed the accountant who visited them the day after the workshop.

In November they want to focus on campaigning in three areas, Raisethorpe, City centre and two new villages. They have been invited to visit and meet families that are interested in becoming our members.

Their request is that the skills centre must be established in all offices and spread to all villages. These should include not only sewing, baking and farming but also information and technology skills development.

GROUTEVILLE

MA LUTHULI

Last week there was a speech contest at the Luthuli Museum and Ma Luthuli was one of the judges. 28 Schools participated over two days. This maybe benefit Al Jama-ah in a long run.

The project of sanitary towels has a chance of being supported by a local man, Mr Mtshali, who received a truck load of sewing machines. They are negotiating.

If Riaz could assist with material the project could take off fast. Shameeda will train them to address primary schools on body care, body development, and expected behaviour.

That will also benefit Al Jama-ah in a long run.

UMZIWABANTU-HARDING

CLLR GOODWILL CELE

During this month he appointed two members to attend the training by IEC for preparation of the 18 and 19 registration weekend as well as 2024 national elections (party agents training).

He also assisted an 88 year old lady with a wheelchair – as the other one who was given a wheelchair just passed away two months ago and it was collected to help others who are in need of it .

They also did door to door campaign as usual telling people about the importance of registering to vote and voting Al Jama-ah for the year 2024, and signing up members who are willing to join the party.

He visited one of our party representatives at Pietermaritzburg (Ml Abdul Aziz) just to do an oversight visit over his wonderful Job in his Agriculture project which is excellent. He and his wife are doing a great job putting Al Jama-ah on the map in Pietermaritzburg area.

FREE STATE

QWA QWA

EBRAHIM

The community of Qwa-Qwa has requested that they be helped in getting their membership cards, they also requested that are assisted with their requests that they asked for in the past months, it will be very sad if that is not successful, as the community of Qwa-Qwa has put a lot of hope in Al Jama-ah.

They are very much asking for help with the problem as they are afraid of the way the community of Ha-Sethunya village has entered.

They are struggling with hunger as they are suffering from electricity, and they say that the cultivation of gardens and fields is the last hope they have. They have a requested for help with transport as they continue to campaign in remote villages for lack of transport, which makes it difficult to reach our community at large and the public is very interested in paying membership fees.

It gives them great hope the way they have received the support from organizations such as the MPA16 which is an independent organization here in Qwa-Qwa

The most hopeful thing is that the leaders who entered Al Jama-ah and their followers in these organizations are returning from them. They are busy gathering their wards and looking forward to the 2024 elections. They have managed to sign up 728 we have 101 paid up members we have already deposited R1050, we are busy collecting R450 for 30 new members.

EASTERN CAPE

MPAME VILLAGE

ABDULLAH

They had a meeting with the royal family with the renovation of the house for tourism as President requested. A list has been made for the ladies. Since they have postponed the event, they are waiting for the NWC to give them the go ahead again.

A few houses and roads were damaged in the rural areas due to the floods

LIMPOPO

SHILUVANE VILLAGE

SAITI NTOLA

Thanked the President and the CEO for continuous support to Limpopo and always coming on board when any need arises and the entire Al Jamah NWC. They are preparing for 2024 general elections with everything they have and wants to be the Al Jama-ah stronghold Province.

In the months of October, they did not plan any events in order to try to ease the burden on the party they we had other things that they did such as door to door in Pharare and Shiluvane .

However, they were forced to ask the party for assistance for the following’s programs.
1. Bela Bela Annual madrasah Jalsa
2. Transport to transport goods for the office in Polokwane
3. Transport to the funeral of Mr Phiri

The Warmbaths Jinnah Park invite was one of the programs that was instrumental as it paved a way for our relationship with the Muslim community and gave them the idea that by 2024, they must have approached all the Muslim communities in Limpopo.

He addressed the crowd and told them on why it is important to vote for Al Jama-ah

The congregants were so happy to a point where they had to get shirts for them and Dr Dada is responsible there and he also promised to help us get funding for our programs.

They got office equipment and through the Donation of Dr Dada but in doing so we were asked to arrange for transportation.

We are in the process of renovating the office and once they are done, they are going to invite the party to come and see the office by Mid November 2023.

They thank the party for the transport to the funeral of one of our own. This showed

the community that we indeed care of our people. They are also having a launch in Lulekani on 11 November 2023

They are going to be victorious as the province and the party should not give up on them as we are stronger together

NORTH WEST

MADIBENG

CLLR KABELO

Then follow up meet and greet was arranged in Thaba Cheu sub region where we were introduced to some of the members of the party and had to explain our ideologies and policies to large constituents of the party. The AUM party has 1 councillors in Thaba Cheu Municipality and 1 in Bushbuckridge, the party looks to be on a growing spike in the Mpumalanga region.

Terms of engagement
1. AUM members votes for AL Jama-ah party in the 2024 elections considering that the party only contests Local Government elections
2. AL Jama-ah to provide resources for the party ahead of 2024 NPE through the coordination deployed member from AL jama-ah
3. A follow up meeting to be arranged to consolidate an MOU
4. AUM to have shirts printed both logos to attract their members
5. Collective mass meeting to be arranged to introduce party fully to AUM ground forces
6. Parties to operate autonomous and on result based agreement

AUM elections performance
1. Thaba Cheu Local Municipality- 1.30% in the LGE
2. Bushbuckridge – 1.45%
3. Bi-Electoons – 3.56%

Recommendations to the NWC

1. Use the party as pilot to establish ourselves in the Mpumalanga region
2. Have a follow up meeting with the party preferably in Pretoria
3. Use it as satellite to brand ourselves in Mpumalanga
4. Give them time to draft what the offer to us as the party
5. Have a result-based MOU with the AUM
6. Task them to have mass meeting for us to test their ground before commiting ourselves into an MOU.

Report submitted on behalf of Cllr Kabelo Nthekiso and Cde Mpho Kgomosotho