He was also a consultant trainer for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Swiss project to train the Department of Labour’s staff. He is a Mediation Training Institute International (MTI) certified consultant in workplace mediation. He served as a judge at the ICC international mediation competition in Paris.

Mahamed has served as an editor of the South African Journal of Labour Relations and has published several articles and research reports.

Mediation experience and style: 

Mahamed has more than 30 years experience in Labour Relations and Dispute Resolution as an academic and practitioner. His preferred mediation style is facilitative. He is, however, comfortable adapting to evaluative, narrative and transformative mediation styles, depending on the dispute, and the parties involved. The majority of the mediations that Mahamed has worked on involve labour disputes, followed by commercial, community and workplace disputes.

Facilitation experience and style: 

Mahamed has more than three decades of experience as a facilitator. He very often is called on to facilitate bargaining forum meetings. Mahamed is a highly skilled facilitator often adapting a hybrid process including Mediation, Relationship by Objectives (RBO) and Participlan.

Chairing enquiries and investigations experience: 

Mahamed is a part-time Senior Commissioner at the CCMA and is also on the CCMA collective bargaining panel. He also conducts dispute resolution processes for the Transnet Bargaining Council. He has worked for more than three decades in the labour and employment arena and has extensive experience as an independent chairperson of internal disciplinary hearings.

Comments from clients:

“Mahamed is a dedicated, honest and trustworthy dispute resolver.”

“Mahamed’s friendly, cheerful nature and positive attitude earned him a special place among the parties. He was awarded the Most Friendly Professional Mediator by the parties at our informal gatherings.”

“Prof Mahamed managed to establish and maintain rapport with the parties, who quickly learned to trust and confide in him during the mediation.”

“I have participated in many mediation processes (some very complicated with multiple parties) that were facilitated by Prof Rajah as the mediator. He is an excellent mediator who is able to bring parties to agreement without either party feeling that they have been treated unfairly or in a biased manner.”