He was the foreign secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during apartheid and represented the party in the National Assembly from 1994 to 1999.
In 1969, based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, he was appointed as the PAC's secretary for foreign affairs.
[1] He was also a founding member of the South African Non Racial Olympic Committee and served as its acting president when Dennis Brutus was detained, and during his five years in Iraq, he was editor of the Baghdad Observer.
[4] After a single term in the assembly, he lost his seat in the 1999 general election, in which the PAC performed poorly.
[1] Months after joining the ANC, Ebrahim died on 25 November 1999 at his home in Berea, Johannesburg after suffering a heart attack.