‘We don’t think of birds as refugees. But their flight mirrors the struggles of people forced to flee violence or devastation. This story asks us to consider their journeys and our role in welcoming them.’ By NONTOBEKO AISHA MKHWANAZI In Return of the Songbirds author, Hani du...

Enver Surty’s journey from this rural farmland to the corridors of power, marking the dawn of democracy, is a profound tale of dedication and commitment to human rights. Book Review by IQBAL JASSAT In Pursuit of Dignity by Mohamed Enver Surty. Publisher: Awqaf SA. ISBN 978 0 620 83455 1 ‘When we...

SHAFIQ MORTON reviews Wadah Khanfar’s The First Spring, The Political Praxis of the Prophet of Islam In the 21ST century, as the ‘western civilisational’ model starts to crumble – epitomised by its lack of conscience on Gaza, the moral decrepitude of its political leadership and its climate-damaging...

UMR HURTER LAUNCHED on December 6 at Tashreeqas Restaurant in collaboration with The Project Justice Trust and AWQAF SA, In Search of Who We Are is the debut novel written by Muhammed Yousuf Minty of Cape Town. A captivated audience was taken on the author’s personal journey,...

DURING the heady 1980s a generation of activists in Cape Town played a pivotal role in creating alternative trade union, social and political structures. One activist, June Esau, recently published her autobiography reflecting on her personal history and her contribution to the struggle for social justice in...

In a recently published book STEVEN FRIEDMAN, who has written extensively on the political and social aspects of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, explores the racist underpinnings of the west’s responses to Israel’s war in Gaza. This is an extract from the book, Good Jew, Bad Jew....

UMR HURTER relates the inspiring journey of a talented children's book writer. He reveals her passion for writing, her personal growth as an author, and her unwavering commitment to captivating storytelling and inspiring readers TO attribute the phrases ‘never say never’ and ‘never too late’ to 55-year-old...

Reviewer YAHYA BIRT Walaa Quisay, Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics (Edinburgh: University Press, 2023), 296pp. ISBN 978-1399502771. Hardback, £90.000; eBook, open access (free). This is no ordinary book review. It was due to a last request from the late, great Dr Shabbir...

Literary critic, author and activist, Professor HEIN WILLEMSE, paid tribute at a 94th birthday celebration for poet-activist James Matthews on May 24 at Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town. THE next time you are around in Kewtown, Athlone , look out for the Kannablast Close Flats between...

GADIJA AHJUM concludes that the The Women's Khutbah Book is 'an important scholarly book...written in a reader-friendly format and addresses realities and transformations occurring not only globally, but also within our local Muslim communities'. Shaikh, S & Seedat, F (2023) The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on...