Fasiha Hassan

Fasiha Hassan (born 26 November 1993) is a South African politician and former student activist.

Born on 26 November 1993,[1] Hassan became politically active as a student activist at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), initially through the Palestinian solidarity movement.

[2] She later received the Norwegian Student Peace Prize for her "nonviolent efforts towards gaining equal access to higher education".

[9] After her graduation, Hassan joined ENSafrica as a candidate attorney,[4] but she did not complete her articles of clerkship.

[10] Instead, in August 2018, the African National Congress (ANC) announced that Hassan would join the party's communications unit ahead of the May 2019 general election.

[19] As deputy convenor she also delivered a political report to the elective conference: in her speech, she argued that the league should lobby for a Pan-African Youth Union boycott of Morocco, in protest of the Western Sahara occupation, and that it should lobby for the establishment of a BRICS youth secretariat.