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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) recently asked the public to comment on the potential registration of a new political party called the Islamic State of Africa (ISA).
Comments or representations are hereby invited from interested or affected people or parties.
The IEC will consider all public comments before a decision is made.
If the party is ultimately registered, it does not automatically mean it qualifies to contest an election and must still meet various legal requirements first.
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Note that a redacted report will be presented for this campaign — your personal info will not be available for any authority or party.
From alleged terrorist to potential future president: Farhad Hoomer launches Sharia law party
News24 – The controversial Farhad Hoomer – who was accused of terrorism and identified as the leader of a local ISIS cell and hit with sanctions by the United States – has applied to register his own political party: the Islamic State of Africa (ISA).
He said the party wanted to “bring back Sharia law” and was hopeful it would appear on the ballot in the 2026 municipal elections.
Although he said the plan was for the party to contest only in the eThekwini region next year, Hoomer did not rule out the prospect of one day becoming president.
Hoomer made headlines in 2018 when he was arrested and charged with various crimes, including offences under the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act.
This was in connection with a deadly attack at the Imam Hussain Mosque in Verulam, north of Durban, during which local mechanic Shaheed Abbas Essop was killed after his throat was slit. Two others were also stabbed but survived.
Hoomer and his co-accused were also linked to the planting of a series of incendiary devices in and around the city. The case was, however, struck from the roll in 2020 after a string of delays.
The following year, Hoomer was again arrested – this time along with five others – and charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition as well as possession of suspected stolen property following a raid at a warehouse in Mayville. That case, too, was subsequently withdrawn, though.
“Between 2017 and 2018, Farhad Hoomer helped organise and begin the operations of a Durban, South Africa-based ISIS cell,” the US Department of the Treasury said at the time.
Hoomer raised funds through kidnap-for-ransom operations and extortion of major businesses, which provided more than one million South African rands in revenue for his cell.”
Under certain circumstances, you can run for and be appointed to public office even with a conviction attached to your name.
The proposed name, abbreviation and symbol, as well as the party’s constitution or its deed of foundation cannot contain anything “which portrays the propagation or incitement of violence or hatred or which causes serious offence to any section of the population on the grounds of race, gender, sex, ethnic origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture or language; or which indicates that persons will not be admitted to membership of the party or welcomed as supporters of the party on the grounds of their race, ethnic origin or colour”.