| Party: | African National Congress |
| Termstart1: | May 1996 |
| Termend1: | May 2009 |
| Citizenship: | South Africa |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1955 |
| Termstart: | 15 August 2013 |
| Termend: | May 2014 |
| Office: | Member of the National Assembly |
| Constituency: | Gauteng |
Farida Mahomed (born 2 February 1955) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) as a backbencher in the National Assembly from 1996 to 2009 and later from 2013 to 2014.
Mahomed was born on 2 February 1955.[1]
Mahomed was not initially elected to Parliament in the 1994 general election,[2] but she joined the caucus during the legislative term, in 1996, to fill a casual vacancy.[3] She served three consecutive terms in the seat, gaining election to full terms in 1999 and 2004.[4] She was a member of the project committee on Muslim personal law established by the Law Commission to draft the Muslim Marriages Bill.[5]
In the 2009 general election, Mahomed was not initially re-elected to her seat. However, she returned on 15 August 2013, when she was sworn in to the assembly to fill the casual vacancy arising from Loretta Jacobus's resignation.[6] In the general election the next year, she was ranked 35th on the ANC's regional party list for Gauteng and she again lost her seat.[7]