at the
Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, Gauteng in August 2022 While in her first year at the University of the Witwatersrand, she joined the Democratic Alliance Students' Organisation (DASO) on campus. She has been the deputy chairperson for Recruitment and Campaigns of DASO, the chair of the DA Youth in the party's Johannesburg South constituency, the chair of the DA Gauteng South Regional Youth Organisation, and the chairperson of the DASO branch at Wits University. She was elected as a DA councillor in the
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in 2014. Khan was elected to a full term in
2016. She was then elected chairperson of the municipality's Section 79 Gender, Youth, and People with Disabilities committee. On 5 June 2019, she was appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Disabilities in the Presidency. She became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and People with Disabilities on 27 June 2019. On 5 December 2020, it was announced that Khan would remain as Shadow Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Disabilities in the Presidency in the shadow cabinet led by
John Steenhuisen. Sharif was promoted to Shadow Minister of Women, Youth and Disabilities in the Presidency by Steenhuisen on 21 April 2023. Sharif was elected to the
Gauteng Provincial Legislature in the
2024 provincial election. She returned to the National Assembly on 24 July 2025. ==References==