Mohammed Rafeek Sayedali Shah is a South African politician from

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

. 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 The KwaZulu-Natal Legislature is the primary legislative body of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is unicameral in its composition and elects the premier and the provincial cabinet from among the leading party or coalition members ...

from 2014 to 2019. In 2022, he announced that he had left the DA to join ActionSA.

Legislative career

Shah was elected to the National Assembly in the 2004 general election, representing the DA in the KwaZulu-Natal constituency. He was not initially re-elected in

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, but he rejoined the National Assembly between 2012 and 2014, filling a mid-term casual vacancy. In the next general election in 2014, he was elected to represented the DA in the

, ranked ninth on the party's provincial list. During the legislative term that followed, he served as the DA's provincial spokesperson in the transport portfolio. 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. In December 2022, he announced that he had left the DA to join ActionSA, a recently established opposition party.

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"We have democracy, but we lack reconciliation"
at IOL Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 21st-century South African politicians Living people {{DEFAULTSORT:Shah, Rafeek Members of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature Year of birth missing (living people)