Imam Haron

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...

The Imam Haron Foundation is hosting the Imam Haron Memorial Lecture on Sunday September 27 at 7.30pm to commemorate the killing in detention of the Imam by the apartheid regime. The Imam Haron Memorial Lecture will be broadcast on the virtual platform on Sunday September 27 at...

In the first part of this series, PROFESSOR MUHAMMED HARON, discussed the recent circulation of three sound clips comprising dhikrs, a portion of the recitation of the Quran during the Taraweeh salaah and extract of a lecture thereafter by Ash-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron. He now focuses on...