District Six legend Aunty Shariefa Khan turns 100 this weekend
Khan, also known as "Mama" or "Aunty Riefa", was born in 1921 in Vryburg in the North West. Her family came to Cape Town in 1928, and lived in Muizenberg and later Kensington where her father had the first halaal butchery in the area, before she married her husband Dawood Khan, an Indian migrant living in District Six. Her parents were Indian migrants too. Her father was Ahmad Khan Deshmukh […]
