Sayed Jaffer

A few steps lead up from Victoria Road just past the Bakoven bus terminus to a path on the mountain slope. At least four graves lie here. The first, right on the footpath, is that of Sayed Alie, a disciple of Sayed Jaffer. Sayed Jaffer's own grave lies in a ravine reached by a small path from it. Further up the same ravine is a third grave, said to be his wife's, and a zigzag path towards Bakoven leads to the grave of Sheikh Muhammad Zaid.

Sayed Jaffer is said to have been banished to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, and he was a sheikh of the Alawi tariqa. His grave was found only at the end of the 19th century, and Sayed Moegsien bin Alawie al-Aidarus is remembered for identifying it.

The grave is simple, raised in the middle of a concrete platform that was once the floor of its tomb. The tomb itself was washed away in a severe storm in the early 1970s. The grave itself has remained.