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ASLAM KHOTA pays tribute to two cricketers – one who served the game as the greatest cricket manager and the other, like many other during his era, were denied full international honours because of apartheid. The third wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage communities...

Mufti Ebrahim Desai (RA), the prominent grand mufti of South Africa, passed away on Friday, 5th of Dhil-Hijjah, 1442, corresponding to Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Durban, South Africa. THE sad news was announced via Twitter by Islamic finance scholar, the eldest son and student of Mufti...

There is no shame in weeping, especially over those who made the world a better place through their illuminative existence and diligent work, writes DR YOUSUF PATEL. AS the sadness and grief of losing the Cape’s prodigious son sets in, the bitter reality and sequalae of separation...

BOORHAANOL Islam Movement pays tribute to one of Bo-Kaap’s icons who went on to serve the Cape community, and who also made an immense contribution nationally and internationally. PROFESSOR Ebrahim Arnold led a life of balance, an imperative our Creator strongly urges humankind to follow. EA, as...

With the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, many have lost family and friends; the community has lost selfless activists working for justice and those who worked towards building social cohesion and contributed towards research and scholarship. ‘The antithesis of the ivory tower intellectual’ SEDICK CROMBIE, a resident...

ABDUSAMAD AKOOJEE, a former executive member of SANZAF, who served the poor for over five decades, passed away on January 2, aged 82. Well known for his Zakah desk at Masjid ul-Quds, Gatesville in Cape Town, during Ramadan, he would arrive at 10am and leave well after...

FARID SAYED reports on the address at the Imam Abdullah Haron Annual Memorial Lecture 2020 by Konehali Gugushe, daughter of murdered anti-apartheid activist, Mapetla Mohapi. THE failure by government, since 1994, to prosecute apartheid-era killers perpetuates the falsehood and lies of the apartheid regime, asserts Konehali Gugushe....

MAHMOOD SANGLAY pays tribute to Anwah Nagia (November 8, 1957 – September 28, 2020) ‘STOP acting small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion’ Rumi. Jumuah Mubarak, 21/08/2020 This was probably Anwah Nagia’s last bulk post to the many beneficiaries of his weekly Jumuah greeting, and his...

In the face of the scourge of gender-based violence, JASMINE KHAN writes that one needs to turn to the Quran and Sunnah for solutions IN view of the ongoing and ­escalating rise in incidents of ­violence against women, there have been many talks and ­programmes attempting to...

Mrs Galiema Haron, the wife of Imam Abdullah Haron, passed away a year ago, on September 29, 2019, exactly 50 years after her husband – who was killed by the apartheid security police on Saturday September 27, 1969 – was buried. Her son, PROFESSOR MUHAMMED HARON, pays...