Tribute to Professor Ebrahim Arnold – ahlan wa sahlan to a life well-lived
BOORHAANOL Islam Movement pays tribute to one of Bo-Kaap’s icons who went on to serve the Cape community, and who also made an immense contribution nationally and internationally. PROFESSOR Ebrahim...
No one is safe until everyone is safe
WILLIAM HIRSCH reports on the first-ever People's Vaccine Open Forum. ‘WE would like to see people vaccinated. It is the best defence against serious illness and death. We want to...
So many lives, so many tears
With the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, many have lost family and friends; the community has lost selfless activists working for justice and those who worked towards building social cohesion...
Worcester: a community rises from colonial and slave legacy
ANVER SEDAN, the chairperson of the Worcester Muslim Jamaa and leader of the gadat, gajaat and dhikrs in the community, writes about the two-hundred year history of a community that...
School honours teacher who led from the front
ALEXANDER Sinton High School has honoured one of its teachers who were at the forefront of the student-teacher uprisings against apartheid in the eighties. FARID SAYED attended the event. On...
Sexually abused by a darul uloom teacher
RADIA Razack is an accomplished professional with a career as environmental lawyer. But she has a story to tell, disturbing in its detail yet astonishingly inspiring in its approaching finale....
Educator wins outstanding doctoral thesis award
by MAHMOOD SANGLAY Professor Shafika Isaacs, who was born and raised in District Six, Cape Town, was awarded meritorious recognition of her work as Outstanding Doctoral...
Stop the victimisation of teachers, reject private education
THE Progressive Organisations’ Formation (POF) expresses outrage in this statement at the victimisation of teachers and principals by the Western Cape Education Department. The extreme poverty and inequalities within present-day...
Assault allegation against Ahmed Deedat challenged
MAHMOOD SANGLAY, investigating assault allegations against the late Ahmed Deedat, has discovered that these are unfounded. The world renowned South African Muslim missionary Ahmed Deedat, who died in 2005, is...
Failure to prosecute apartheid-era killers ‘perpetuates corrupt and criminal activities’ of apartheid regime
FARID SAYED reports on the address at Imam Abdullah Haron Annual Memorial Lecture 2020 by Konehali Gugushe, daughter of murdered anti-apartheid activist, Mapetla Mohapi. THE failure by government, since 1994,...
