Rafeek Shah
South African politician
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Mohammed Rafeek Sayedali Shah is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal. He represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2014, and later in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 2014 to 2019. In 2022, he announced that he had left the DA to join ActionSA.
- ActionSA (since 2022)
- Democratic Alliance (until 2022)
Rafeek Shah | |
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| Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature | |
| In office 21 May 2014 – 7 May 2019 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 23 April 2004 – June 2009 | |
| Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
| In office 1 February 2012 – 6 May 2014 | |
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| Citizenship | South Africa |
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Legislative career
Shah was elected to the National Assembly in the 2004 general election, representing the DA in the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.[1] He was not initially re-elected in 2009, but he rejoined the National Assembly between 2012 and 2014, filling a mid-term casual vacancy.[2]
In the next general election in 2014, he was elected to represented the DA in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, ranked ninth on the party's provincial list.[2] During the legislative term that followed, he served as the DA's provincial spokesperson in the transport portfolio.[3]
In the 2019 general election, he stood for election both to the National Assembly and to the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, but he was not ranked highly enough to gain a seat in either.[2] In December 2022, he announced that he had left the DA to join ActionSA, a recently established opposition party.[4]