Tributes

DR AAYESHA SONI remembers Dr Yakub Essack, who passed away on Wednesday May 1, 2024, as someone who infused ‘passion with a gentle and caring nature, making him both responsible and approachable’. Being a junior member of the Gift of the Givers medical team my interactions with...

DR REEDERWAAN CRAAYENSTEIN pays tribute to Nabil Swart, a teacher and activist whose role in challenging the notion of worth based on skin colour and instilling values of integrity, honesty and courage in his students reshaped the education system in South Africa WEST INDIAN psychoanalyst and social...

MUHAMMAD FAZL-UR-RAHMAN RAWOOT, the nephew of the late Haji Omar Ahmed Essack Karjieker, reflects on the life of his uncle, a humble man, whose quiet presence and wise guidance will be sorely missed. And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth...

THE recent passing of Omaruddin ‘Don’ Mattera, a giant in the African and South African literary worlds, leaves us with a legacy we must celebrate. His death also leaves a gap that is almost impossible to fill, writes YUNUS OMAR. MANY fine tributes have been written in...

South African-born and now based in Turkey, master calligrapher, MUHAMMAD HOBE, pays tribute to Mufti Taha Karaan who inspired him to choose this vocation. I am a former Waterval Islamic Institute student of the 90s. As a student at what is popularly referred to as Mia’s Farm,...

With the passing on of Shukoor Mowzer, the man who is synonymous with Nakhlistan, DR REEDERWAN CRAAYENSTEIN and IMAM DR ABDUL RASHIED OMAR reflect on the context within which this organisation came into being. ON 31 May 2022, Cape Town bid farewell to a champion of the...

THE Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF) and the Media Review Network (MRN) have paid tribute to Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim who passed away earlier today, at the age of 84. Ahmed Kathrada Foundation After fighting a valiant battle with cancer, Comrade Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim succumbed to his illness at...

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...