Prayer times in South Africa

South Africa has a Muslim community of approximately 1.9 percent of the population per the 2022 census, numbering roughly 1.16 million people. The community is composed of three principal groups with distinct historical origins: the Cape Malay community (descendants of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century enslaved persons and political exiles brought from the Dutch East Indies, Madagascar, and the Indian Ocean to the Cape Colony, predominantly Sunni Shafi'i with a strong Sufi tradition; the founding figure is the seventeenth-century Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar, exiled to the Cape in 1694 and the founder of organized Islam in southern Africa), the Indian Muslim community (descendants of indentured laborers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 and of post-1875 free trader migrants from Gujarat and the Konkan, predominantly Sunni Hanafi with smaller Khoja and Bohra communities), and a growing convert community among native Black South Africans. The Auwal Mosque in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap, opened in 1794, is the oldest in South Africa. The Muslim Judicial Council and the Jamiatul Ulama of South Africa are major bodies. eSalah uses MWL default.