Sanef, when narrating Palestine, remained far too silent. Sanef missed a crucial opportunity to extend solidarity with Palestinian journalists by inviting the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, or even acknowledging them by allowing an online address. By HASSEN LORGAT THE perception that South Africa’s leadership requires immense wealth seems...

All struggles against oppression are interconnected, whether in Palestine or Sudan, in Rafah or al-Fashir, for injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. By IMAM DR A RASHIED OMAR This khutbah was delivered at the Claremont Main Road Masjid, Cape Town on Friday, November 14, 2025....

Gaza is not an isolated atrocity; it is a prism through which the world’s hierarchies of grief are exposed. It reveals how Muslim power has become performative, and how moral paralysis sustains not only occupation abroad but inequality, racism, patriarchy and authoritarianism at home. By SHAYKH IGHSAAN...

What Pakistan’s generals seek is a role disturbingly similar to that of the Palestinian Authority — a local police force whose real function is not to protect Palestinians but to protect Israel from Palestinian resistance. By PROF JUNAID S AHMAD From Islamabad to Washington via Riyadh and...

OPINION For South African Muslims to occupy a meaningful space in global Muslim thought, we must first know ourselves, challenge our internal silences and build institutions rooted in integrity. By ADNAAN ADAMS WHEN the Global Imams and Scholars Council (GISC) convened in Cape Town in October 2025...

What South Africa requires is not a binary choice between two-stage reformism and permanent revolution, but a synthesis—a pragmatic, inclusive and strategic framework that integrates the strengths of both traditions. By MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO South Africa’s post-apartheid journey has been shaped by a persistent tension between competing...

MAHMOOD SANGLAY When the Global Imams and Scholars Council (GISC) convened in Cape Town for its third international retreat in October 2025, it signalled a moral alliance of Muslim scholars intent on redefining leadership and justice in a fractured world. The dinner on October 29, hosted by...

Zohran Mamdani, the empire, and the politics of being grounded By ADLI YACUBI In part one of this reflection, we traced how New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani drew strength from his Cape Town childhood — a city whose mosques and movements shaped his early moral imagination....

While Brazil’s 2024 G20 agenda was bold and managed to secure solid commitments on taxing the ultra-rich and a global compact on hunger and inequality, efforts by South Africa and the African Union to push a progressive development agenda has been muddled. By ASHRAF PATEL SOUTH AFRICA’S...

It is empire by liquidity rather than legions, annexation via influence rather than borders. Running quietly through this strategy is growing coordination with Israel — long before the Abraham Accords made it fashionable. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S AHMAD EMPIRES no longer need gunboats. In today’s Middle East,...