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THE Israeli occupation forces shot dead 26-year-old Palestinian journalist, Ibrahim Muharib, on Sunday August 18 near Hamad City in Khan Younis. Muharib was killed, and another Palestinian journalist, Salma Qadoumi was injured, when soldiers from the occupation forces opened fire...

‘This will no doubt be a life changing and character-shaping event for them’. by SALEEMAH JAFFER ON the July 1, 2024, 26 South African youth joined the 19-day Madina Institute Global Youth Leadership Programme in Türkiye. The South African cohort...

‘Sadly, it is a perpetration of deliberate ongoing attempts in Europe and America to repurpose and cheapen Christian themes without regard for peace loving Christians.’ – Bishop Badejo THE following statement was issued by Most Reverend Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, Bishop...

In an era where free speech is venerated as a pillar of democratic values, its application often reveals a disturbing selectivity—especially when it comes to discourse on Palestine. MAHMOOD SANGLAY exposes the double standards of neoliberal values on the subject....

AUGUST 1945: America drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki reducing these cities to a rubble and claiming over 150 000 lives. NONTOBEKO AISHA MKHWANAZI reports on a recent dialogue in Cape Town addressed by three of the survivors. The...

Declan Kearney, the Irish republican politician in Northern Ireland addressed the delegates at the Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine from May 10 to 12. MAHMOOD SANGLAY explores how the National Chairman of Sinn Féin invoked the Irish liberation struggle to...

The global anti-apartheid conference for Palestine got underway in Sandton on Friday, May 10 and will end tomorrow. FASEEGAH DAVIDS reports on some of the highlights from day one. DAY one marked an important day in shaping the broader politics, narrative,...

Among the speakers to address the conference are, from left, Naledi Pandor, the South African Minister of International Relations, Reverend Frank Chikane, Commissioner for the World Council of Churches, Dr Mustafa Barghouti, member of the Palestinian National Initiative and Lamis...

Photojournalist Mustafa Ayyad killed in Gaza. FEROZ SHAIK reports: TRAGEDY struck in the streets of Gaza City as Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa Ayyad fell victim to Israeli airstrikes while on assignment. Ayyad, who was covering the scenes unfolding in the Zeitoun...

DURING the monsoon season of 2023, in the heart of the world’s largest refugee camp, MARCELO ABDULLAH SCHELLINI sat down with Rohingya photographer, video maker, and social activist, Ro Yassin Abdumonab, highlighting the role of photojournalism and its images of...