AMINA WAGGIE MISSION Dawah South Africa, established in 2014 by Suhayl Schroeder and Natheer ­Hendricks, has been taking dawah to the next level in ­teaching others about Islam. They have been doing this by taking the information to the people instead of waiting for the people to...

AYESHA ALLIE AFRIKANER nationalist academics played a huge role in the deliberate process to keep the Afrikaans language viewed as Dutch, said Professor Hein Willemse at the launch of the book, Die Afrikaans van die Kaapse Moslems (The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims), which took place at...

NASEEMA MALL DURBAN based South African Muslim Network (Samnet) recently launched an online survey to assess the participation of the South African Muslim community in politics and elections. According to Samnet’s chairperson, Dr Faisal Suliman, they ‘wanted to gauge in more than just an anecdotal fashion, the...

ADIEL ISMAIL UNIVERSITY of the Western Cape (UWC) presented its first Gold Medal for Commitment to Community Service to well-known historian from Strand, Mr Ebrahim Rhoda. The award, presented by the vice-chancellor and rector of UWC, Professor Tyrone Pretorius, at a ceremony on December 14, 2018, was...

JASMINE KHAN HOPEFIELD, a small town on the West Coast, was founded in 1853. When the R45 road was re-routed around the town, the infrastructure of Hopefield gradually shrunk and became geographically and economically isolated. Ghaironesa, a revert, and her husband have lived in Hopefield  for 30...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY MUSLIM Views and Hospital Welfare and Muslim Educational Movement (HWMEM) have joined hands in launching a bursary programme specifically geared to support the development of independent journalism and media studies. The programme is launched on the back of a relationship between Muslim Views and HWMEM...

STAFF REPORTER The family of Ash-Shaheed Imam Abdullah Haron has officially announced the establishment of the Imam Haron Commemoration Committee (IHCC) to mark the 50th year since his killing in detention on the September 27, 1969 by the apartheid police. The family – under the auspices of...

AMINA WAGGIE MISTER Tahir Levy is an 83-year-old welfare and community worker, born in 1935, and raised in Caledon Street, District 6, during World War II. He has dedicated more than 60 years of his life to serving the community. In this time, Mr Levy, also addressed...

Like South Africans, the Palestinian people will never submit to apartheid and will continue to resist. MOUSA ABU MARZOUQ, poliburo member of the Hamas Movement, writes an exclusive article for Muslim Views. TWO million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are slowly being suffocated. Over 40 per cent...

SHAFIQ MORTON IN the 18th century, it is recorded that free Blacks, Southeast Asian exiles and former slaves were amongst the first inhabitants of Bo-Kaap, a residential area situated on the lower slopes of Signal Hill, overlooking the Mother City. Bo-Kaap is now prime real estate, but...