As the country begins Arbour Week on September 1 and the start of Heritage Month, CASSIEM KHAN reflects on his heritage that led him and his family to undertake the Az Zahra Garden project. Arbour Week provides us with the opportunity to highlight the importance of trees....

Muslim Views columnist Jasmine Khan launched her latest book in April, this year. SHANAAZ GOOL-HAMIT gives her views on Khan’s latest offering. IN order to teach our children about salaah, we as adults need to be au fait with the subject. We need to know how to...

SIXTY-YEAR-OLD Ntombikazi Rwayi, fondly known as Ma Agnes, is the Restoration Facility Team leader at the Westlake Conservation Centre. She takes care of plants, empowers Expanded Public Works Programme workers and has a passion to grow specialised fynbos plants. Ma Agnes lives in Khayelitsha and has no...

As the pandemic progressed, there was a suspicion that those who participated in regular physical activity were less likely to develop a serious illness when infected with the SARS-Cov-2 virus, writes DR MOHAMMED NASIR JAFFER. ‘AND whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if...

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...

I can never watch a Dilip Kumar film or think about Dilip Kumar without also thinking about my father, writes GAIROONISA PALEKER. DILIP Kumar, who was the cinematic avatar of Yousuf Khan, died on July 7, 2021, at the age of 98. He was arguably the brightest,...

PROFESSOR SALEEM BADAT reviews Zuleikha Mayat’s latest book, The Odyssey of Crossing Oceans published by the Women’s Cultural Group. MOST people in their mid-90s slow down, spend time with family, especially grandchildren if there are any, and generally live life at a more leisurely pace. Now in...

For centuries, space was considered to be a cold vacuum of emptiness, a fixed permanent entity in which the cosmic drama is playing itself out, writes DR YUSUF NOOR. THE universe is largely empty space; planets, stars and galaxies occupy relatively small regions of space. Our planet...

IN a recent study conducted by Zutobi Drivers Ed, an international driver’s education company, it was found that South Africa is the world’s most unsafe country in which to drive. Road Safety Partnership South Africa (RSP) says that while it is common knowledge that road deaths in...

THE origins of the hardcover book, District Six – Memories, Thoughts and Images, which MARTIN GRESHOFF edited, goes back to a series of photographs, taken by his late uncle, Jan Greshoff, in the early and mid-1970s. MY uncle, Jan Greshoff, was an architect who worked in Cape...