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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...

More than 20 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing a humanitarian catastrophe as the United Nations warns of a famine within the next six months. Journalist SHANAAZ EBRAHIM-GIRE, who is currently in Nairobi, visited some drought-affected areas and filed this report. AID organisations are...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY CAN a mosque be waqf and at the same time be owned by a private trust? This issue has been interrogated over the past three years by some stakeholders of Al Jaamia Masjid, in Stegman Road, Claremont, Cape Town. In March 2014, the imam of...