Working with the latter, he was also a member of the drafting committee of a landmark document produced during South Africa's constitution-drafting period called the Declaration on Religious Rights and Responsibilities. His other employment included: the Congress of South African Trade Unions; the Southern African NGO Network (SANGONet); the University of the Witwatersrand; and the Freedom of Expression Institute. In 1994, on the eve of South Africa's first democratic elections, Jeenah's family joined those in South Africa who had sacrificed family members for the struggle: his brother, Mohseen Jeenah, a student leader and anti-Apartheid activist, was gunned down in the early hours of the morning of 17 January by Apartheid police. Jeenah and Shaikh undertook the hajj pilgrimage in 1997, while Shaikh was already suffering from the effects of breast cancer, which had affected her severely. On the couple's return they authored a book about their pilgrimage called Journey of Discovery: A South African Hajj. Soon after, they founded the Johannesburg-based Muslim community radio station called The Voice, which exposed radical and progressive Muslim voices to the Muslim community and became a flagship for women's rights, inter-religious tolerance and anti-imperialist rhetoric. It also gave a voice to refugee communities and social movements. Shaikh died just four months after the station went on air. Jeenah's career has been a checkered one, spanning the NGO sector, academia, religious organizations and journalism. Currently working as executive director of the Afro-Middle East Centre, he is also a board member of the Denis Hurley Peace Initiative and an advisory board member of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies. He previously held the position of Director: Operations at the , was a steering committee member of an inter-religious organization focusing on women's issues called The Other Voices, and a lecturer in political studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is often interviewed as an expert by various media on issues related to the Middle East, Islam and the Muslim world, Muslims in South Africa, Islamic Feminisms, political Islam, freedom of expression and various other issues. An experienced journalist, he also wrote for a number of publications and reported for a network of radio stations in the US. He is also a monthly columnist for the South African newspaper Al-Qalam. Jeenah was named in December 2000 on the Mail & Guardian’s "Hot Shit 100 List" of people "Making their mark in the new millennium" and,