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The views expressed by the writer, MAHMOOD SANGLAY, in this article are followed below by relevant disclosures and disclaimers. Moulana Dawood Sampson’s announcement on August 14 to take a second wife sparked a controversy, adding another to the catalogue of controversies routinely spawned by the Muslim community...

DR MUZZAMMIL ISMAIL, a public health medicine registrar in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town, calls for extra vigilance and caution in the community as the government relaxes the lockdown restrictions. THE past six months have been defined by COVID-19 and its...

Professor ASLAM FATAAR A decisive victory for urban spatial justice was achieved on Monday, August 31, in the Western Cape High Court. Judges Patrick Gamble and Monde Semela have set aside the sale of the Tafelberg site in Sea Point by the Western Cape provincial Government. In...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY Did you know that there are records of Muslims killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust? We are generally familiar with the record of 313 Muslims who battled the Quraish at Badr (on Ramadaan 17, 2 AH) and that 14 of them were martyred. The narratives...

BRIAN ISAACS outlines the campaign of the Progressive Organisations' Forum in the debate on the opening of schools in the Western Cape. DUE to the COVID-19 ­pandemic, schools were closed on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, by the South African government. The government introduced stage 5 lockdown regulations...

ZUNAID MOSAM launched his book, Coolie Bandiet on June 16, 2020 at an event hosted by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. A social justice activist and two academics share their thoughts on the book. DR ISMAIL VADI: IT is not always that a novel is written and published by...

CYBER criminals are using the coronavirus pandemic, and the public’s ongoing thirst for virus information and updates, to secure sensitive information and spread malware. Al Baraka Bank’s Acting Risk Manager, Mr Luqman Issadeen, has warned clients against opening or downloading seemingly reputable communications dealing with the virus....

TWO generations of activists have paid glowing tribute to Cassiem Christians, who passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 after suffering a stroke a few days earlier. Christians, who matriculated at Spes Bona High School, in Athlone, and majored in psychology, history and English at the University...

CASSIEM KHAN writes that our magnanimity as a people has caused us to take our focus away from the perpetrators, the security branch members, the public order or, as we knew them, the riot police, and the South African Defence Force (SADF) military intelligence operatives who murdered...

PROFESSOR ASLAM FATAAR of Stellenbosch University denounces the looting of state COVID-19 funding as well as the silence of key community voices in the wake of this corruption. He calls for decisive action against the perpetrators of this crime against the poor and needy of our country. Corruption has reached pandemic proportions....