Delivering parcels in Pelican Park, Cape Town.
Al Jama-ah MP Honorable Shameemah Salie and the ward 67 Al jama-ah Womens league at work during the holiday season, delivering parcels to our members and supporters in Pelican Park,Cape Town.
Supporting women living with cancer, their families, and caregivers
On Friday 25 October, MP Honourable Advocate Shameemah Salie was invited to the launch of “My Cancer Journal” by Yumna Abrahams Booran, a coach, entrepreneur, and cancer survivor.
The launch took place at the stylish Saiy Coffee, indeed a coffee shop where you can savor the luxurious Karak tea, coffee, and a meal while enjoying the elegant and welcoming atmosphere.
Yumnah is such a humble beautiful soul who easily opened up to share her journey of discovery of breast cancer, her hardships and challenges in a manner that makes one connect in laughter, sadness and gratitude.
Her resilience, faith and caring loving personality is indeed captivating.Her launch and her experience is raw in emotion, genuine in feeling and one could connect on many levels.
Shameemah Salie went further in saying.”At a time where so many are going through the journey of cancer, or are cancer survivors or have loved ones who have died of or who are going through cancer,this event for me personally was much needed.”
Yumnah has shared so much in her cancer journal that it is a book that we need to have in our homes to prepare us holistically. This transformative journal is designed to support women living with cancer, their families, and caregivers through a 12-month journey of faith, healing, and empowerment.
At this event, we were introduced to discover the purpose and inspiration behind the journal.We were able to hear from Yumna Abrahams Booran as she shared her cancer journey and her motivation for creating the journal. We were able to engage with other women and families navigating similar challenges.We were able to meet friends of Yumna and get access to their products and of course meet with her beautiful mom, siblings, children and supporters.
We were able to enjoy a meaningful and inspiring evening dedicated to raising cancer awareness and fostering resilience within the community.
Shameemah Salie went further in saying”Yumnah my sister may Allah grant you good health, imaan, taqwa, baraqa, gayr and the ability to continue to expand to reaching many more through your coaching, and your journal and your very giving and caring personality sharing of yourself through qudrat of Allah in the most unselfish manner. Ameen”
Women’s Empowerment Workshop in Hammanskraal
Akili Mwanga in partnership with the communities in Tshwane met for a Women’s Empowerment Workshop on Friday 6th September in Hammanskraal.
The community had a great engagement with the Deputy Minister of Social Development and his office administration discussing the opportunities around NPOs – and the other challenges they are facing regarding social development.
Women’s Day Debate By Hon. Adv. Shameemah Salie
Assalaamu Alaikum – Universal Greetings of Peace to All!
We pay tribute to the thousands of women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 august 1956 in protest against not only the dompass, but an entire oppressive and apartheid system.
Their cry of: “Strike a women Strike a Rock!” continues to resonate not just in South Africa but around the world as people continues to face rape, terrorism and oppression as well as in Kashmir and Congo. But shockingly right here today the Marriage Bill was debated and once again Muslim women are disrespected and the Bill is set to harm their dignity
Muslims are set to reject this Bill
Al Jamaah calls for wider public participation on the Marriage Bill and not what the justice system has done – to invite Cosatu on a matter affecting Muslim Women. Where not Muslim women affected but Cosatu accepts Amendments.
Muslim Women must be respected in this Parliament it cannot be in the 31st Parliament our dignity continues to be harmed. Domestic and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa remain a huge concern and women no longer trust the justice system. The 2021 United Nation’s report on women’s rights has revealed low levels of prosecution and conviction in domestic violence cases and the police lack of will to enforce protection orders; notably not much since then has improved and rape continues to be an endemic in our country.
Whilst we celebrate Women’s Month under the theme: “Thirty Years of Freedom and Women Development” this is a sobering reminder of the many obstacles’ women, particularly the poor and disenfranchised women continue to confront daily. We have a serious lack of state-run shelters for women and children. South Africa has an obligation to ensure protection and assistance to victims of domestic violence; adequate funding must be allocated to NGO-run shelters.
Most women are unable to “Celebrate 30 years of Freedom and Women Development” as they do not have the freedom to safety and security. Gangsterism, drugs and other social ills are prevalent in poor communities and all these impacts negatively on the socio-economic lives of women. Most women are forced to carry the burden of managing their households while the Maintenance Court continue to fail them.
We further acknowledge the progress that has been made to facilitate women’s empowerment, the reality is, they continue to be the victims of unemployment, suffer job inequalities and reasonable access to financial aid which prevents women from fully participating in the economy.
Celebrating Women’s Month: Meet Hon Adv. Shameemah Salie
AL JAMA-AH’S ONLY WOMAN LAWMAKER MAKES WAVES
She became Al Jama-ah’s first councillor and progressed to become its second Member of Parliament also making her the party’s first female lawmaker at that level.
Hon Adv. Shameemah Salie hardly needs introduction, her appearances on social media are a manifestation of her hard work in various communities.
She is married with five children, and has striked a unique balance between work, personal life and her community work. She was a public servant for many years serving as a Family advocate in the Department of Justice and State advocate in the office of the National Prosecuting Authority until 2015.
Since she started practicing her career, she dealt with matters which negatively impacted on the lives of women, children and the elderly. Her experience in law is not limited to but a large area of her focus areas that continues today is her focus in assisting the gender based violence matters by ensuring that victims have adequate access to facilities for victim empowerment and support during those traumatic times.
Adv Salie is an ambassador in several NPO/ NPC and this has increased her reach over the years in assistance of several communities in need through various projects and appeals.
When she joined Al Jama-ah full-time she continued and intensified her groundwork within communities which had commenced since a young age coming from a family background deeply involved in empowerment, upliftment of the most marginalised.
In Al Jama-ah she continued assisting with various upliftment and empowerment projects. She does not restrict herself to certain areas, she moves where the needs are, and that is within the most vulnerable communities: women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities.
Salie is further actively involved in the Al Jama-ah women’s league and on the forefront of community projects and assistance within the relevant league. She also championed the rights of pilgrims who embarkrd on the holy journey of hajj and umrah (the lesser pilgrimage) and has been on the forefront of assisting, educating and fundraising pilgrims to fulfill obligations as well as protecting pilgrims from concerning actions within the relevant industry.
Salie has for decades been a supporter of the Palestinian cause and the freedom of Palestine. Her activism and assistance towards the Palestinian cause and fight against genocide and oppressions in Palestine, DRC, Kashmir and many other areas are well known.
Adv Salie has further grown up in a family involved and connected to sports and continues assistance to and outreach through sports.
Adv Salie as an MP incorporates her education, skills and background and serves on the portfolio committees of Sports, Arts and Culture; International Relations and as alternative on Justice.
Celebrating Women’s Month: Meet Fatimah Morgan
The Al Jama-ah Pelican Park ward 67 has 10 ladies who belong to the Al Jama-ah Women’s league.
These ladies assist the vulnerable on a daily basis, whether it’s someone in need of a loaf of bread, a house burning down, floods or if someone is sick – they are always busy assisting.They are willing to put their lives on hold to assist the communities who need them.
Fatimah Dollie Morgan is the team leader for this wonderful group of ladies.
She is the most selfless and dedicated field worker striving towards the upliftment and protection of women and children.
She is the most selfless and dedicated field worker striving towards the upliftment and protection of women and children.
The Southern Suburbs Womens League have been assisting women with sewing machines and material to make themselves sufficient. They have had cancer awareness programs, youth day celebrations as well as women’s day celebrations.
The ward 67 committee has run gender based violence programs. The women’s league has run karaoke evenings so that the ladies from the community can take some time out from their day to day struggles.
Fatima say s”We have women popping in at the office daily just to vent about their struggles and we give them a listening ear and try to change their moods. We try to assist when women have problems with kids being on drugs by getting assistance for them.”
The Southern Suburbs womens league provides assistance in getting women with small kids into shelters. They also receive counselling, in order for them to change their circumstances. For Women’s month they visited women shelters, old age homes and orphanages to donate clothes, toiletries to our beloved women and girls.