Saidi bin Shariff (1940 – 14 January 2020) was a Singaporean politician belonging to

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major Conservatism, conservative political party in Singapore and is the governing contemporary political party represented in the Parliament of Singapore, followed by the opposition Workers' Party of Singap ...

. He was a member of the

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Biography

Saidi was a founding member of Yayasan Mendaki which is a self-help group. He received secondary education in Raffles Institution from 1955 to 1958. In the sixties he worked at the National Community Leadership Training Institute. He was elected as a member of the

from

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in 1980. After his parliamentary career, Saidi started to take classes for young leaders. Later, he received a postgraduate degree from the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

at the age of 56. He retired as an assistant director from Yayasan Mendaki in 2002. Saidi died on 14 January 2020 at the age of 79.

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People's Action Party politicians Members of the Parliament of Singapore 1940s births 2020 deaths Alumni_of_the_University_of_Hull Singaporean politicians of Malay descent {{Singapore-politician-stub