Imam Haron

By MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO On September 26, 2026, Al-Mustafa International University – South Africa honoured Imam Abdullah Haron at a symposium on Ubuntu, religion and nation-building, a fitting tribute to a martyr in the struggle for a just and equal society. In African cosmology, a person’s name...

By IMAM DR ABDUL RASHIED OMAR Fifty-seven years after Imam Abdullah Haron was tortured to death in apartheid detention, the truth about his martyrdom is finally on record. Yet the absence of prosecutions leaves South Africa facing a deeper question of justice. This September marked 57 years...

Today, seventy years since his appointment as Imam of al-Jaamia Masjid, Stegman Road, Claremont, in 1955, we reflect not only on the tragedy of his martyrdom but on his enduring legacy of justice and compassion, a legacy that continues to speak with power and urgency. By IMAM...

‘Seeking the truth and uncovering the realities of past injustices is crucial for both honouring the memory of those who suffered and ensuring that similar wrongs do not occur again.’ The khutbah by IMAM ABDUL RASHIED OMAR at Claremont Main Road Masjid, Cape Town, was delivered on...

MARYNA BOTHA argues that setting the records straight on deaths at the hands of the apartheid regime and collecting restitution is a step towards creating a powerfully just and equitable society in this country. ON October 9 this year, the Western Cape High Court handed down a...

The legacy of As-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron is a regular Muslim Views heritage theme in September. This year it also coincided with Moulood-un-Nabi, as it did the day the Imam was taken into custody by apartheid security police in September 1969. To mark the commemoration this year,...

‘The last days in the life of the Imam, an anti-apartheid guerilla: 28 May to 27 September 1969.’ Judge Daniel Thulare, the presiding judge in the 2022-2023 inquest into the killing of Imam Abdullah Haron, aptly selected this title for his judgement on October 9, 2023, which...

The legacy of As-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron is our regular heritage theme in September. This year it also coincides with Moulood-un-Nabi, as it did the day the Imam was taken into custody by apartheid security police in September 1969. Our online edition contains a free pdf of...

CASSIEM KHAN provides an analysis of the closing arguments at the reopened inquest into the killing in detention of Imam Abdullah Haron. The closing arguments were heard in Courtroom 20 on April 24 and 25. Significantly, the inquest reminded us of apartheid’s brutality during Freedom Month, just...

CASSIEM KHAN attended the closing arguments on April 24-25, 2023 of the reopened inquest into the killing of Ash-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron. He points out that the closing arguments exposed the false narrative that has been on the record books for 53 years. A generation of anti-Apartheid...