Ismail Mahomed Cachalia (born December 20, 1929) is a retired South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2009.
[1] He also served an earlier partial term in the first democratic Parliament.
[2] He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1994, in South Africa's first post-apartheid elections,[3] but he resigned from his seat before the end of the legislative term.
[4] He returned in the middle of the next legislative term, on 3 July 2001, when he was sworn in to fill the casual vacancy caused by Melanie Verwoerd's resignation.
[5] He was elected to a full term in the seat in the 2004 general election, representing the Gauteng constituency,[2] and retired after the 2009 general election.