Imam Haron

Reporting on the second day of the inquest into the killing of Imam Abdullah Haron, CASSIEM KHAN focusses on the account of an expert witness that questioned the findings of the 1970 inquest that found that Imam Haron had died from injuries sustained after a fall down...

CASSIEM KHAN reports from the Western Cape High Court, Cape Town on the first day of the inquest into the killing of Imam Abdullah Haron. THE oft-quoted aphorism, ‘the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine,’ came to mind on the first day, Monday November...

The inquest into the killing of Imam Abdullah Haron opened in the Cape Town High Court today, November 7, 2022. CASSIEM KHAN sketches the process from the killing of the Imam on September 27, 1969 and the inquest held by the apartheid regime in 1970 to the...

While Ash-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron had a direct impact on his students and congregants, it is a measure of the Imam’s conduct of teaching and activism that the lessons learnt from this dynamic personality continue to impact on generations that follow. NONTOBEKO AISHA MKHWANAZI spoke to the...

ASHUR SHAMIS reviews the Al Jazeera Arabic documentary on Ash-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron that was flighted on May 15, 2020. Pain. Prison. Torture. Death. Two deaths, in fact, and two funerals, separated by precisely fifty years, to the day. Graves. No! Two graves in one, for the...

THE Imam Haron Foundation will, for the second year in succession, host the annual Imam Haron Memorial Lecture. The lecture, on Monday, September 27 at 7:00pm, will be presented virtually, broadcasting from the studios of On Screen Productions, courtesy of Al Ikhlaas Academia Library. The public can...

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....

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...

EDITORIAL COMMENT The deaths in detention of Imam Abdullah Haron and Steve Biko are commemorated in September. Imam Abdullah Haron was murdered in detention on 27 ­September 1969, while Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko was murdered on 12 September 1977, also in detention. The individual stories of...

After discussing the recent circulation of three sound clips of Ash-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron in the first and second parts his son, PROFESSOR MUHAMMED HARON, in the final part, ­focuses on the responses of the family and community more than 50 years after the event. PART THREE The...