A Cape Malay’s rise in the ANC

A CAPE Malay has emerged as the leader of the ruling African National Congress in Western Cape, better known as the heartland of the Cape Malay, whose ancestral roots can be traced back to the Malay Archipelago three century ago. K.Y. PUNG met this young articulate leader in Cape Town in South Africa recently. 

JUST two or three generations ago, his grandmother and sisters could look like they could be from anywhere in the Malay Archipelago, declared Ebrahim Rasool, 41.