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...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY THE visit of the president of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), Shaikh Irfaan Abrahams, on May 14, to the Imam Husain Mosque, in Verulam, where 34-year-old Abbas Essop was murdered, was an important moment for the MJC to declare its rejection of sectarian violence in...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY OVER 40 organisations and leaders made a public call for support of the Cape Accord on June 3, at Masjidul Quds, in Cape Town. The initiative follows a series of lectures at the same mosque in Ramadaan, on June 11, 2017, on the theme ‘An...

DR YUNUS OMAR writes: 'Alie Fataar profoundly influenced multiple generations of pupils in South Africa. He instilled in them the virtues of critical citizenship and a profound, articulated anti-racism.' ALIE Fataar was a teacher. Perhaps that doesn’t seem glamorous and very important. But Fataar, who would have...

DR MARDEYAH BASSIER ‘IF obesity in South African children continues to increase at the current rate, 3,91 million school children will be overweight or obese by 2025,’ according to The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa, in October, 2016. Obesity in children is a serious epidemic that...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY MUSLIM Views and Muslim News have a combined history of almost 57 years. Muslim News was published for 26 years, from December 1960 to August 1986. An estimated 670 fortnightly editions of the newspaper saw the light of day. Muslim Views was launched in September...

In this exclusive interview for Muslim Views, SURAYA DADOO spoke to Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, about the movement’s vision for Palestine. AFTER exchanging the customary Islamic greeting, Khaled Meshaal raises a clenched fist and offers an ‘Amandla!’ ‘Isn’t that how political discussions begin in your country,’ Hamas’s...

Shaikh SA’DULLAH KHAN pays tribute to a life lived in the service of humanity. THE world bade farewell to liberation stalwart, Ahmed Mohammed Kathrada, a fearless, courageous, revered anti-apartheid veteran, an exemplary mentor, radical revolutionary with a humble soul, the gentle uncle of the struggle. Dedicated life...

YUSUF ABRAHAMS ON Monday, March 21, 1960, South Africans and the world at large witnessed the brutal massacre of 69 men, women and children between the ages of 15 and 70 years, and the maiming of a further 189 people at the hands of the South African...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY ‘WE always have a plan but we never aspire to be number one,’ says Mohamed Zafar Ahmed, principal of Al-Falaah College, in Springfield, Durban. The institution was established in 1984 as a co-ed private Muslim primary and high school. In 2016, Al Falaah emerged as...