Guest Writer

A viral confrontation in Norwood has renewed debate over racist and anti-Palestinian abuse, accountability and restorative justice, as the writer examines the responses of Chabad Norwood, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and other local community leaders. By HASSEN LORGAT It is the time of...

By HASSEN LORGAT The writer argues that claims of a sweeping Cape Union Mart victory are overblown, as the Krawitz ruling, its costs decision and the appeal reopen deeper questions about protest, free speech and Nelson Mandela’s political legacy. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and four individuals...

By MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO On September 26, 2026, Al-Mustafa International University – South Africa honoured Imam Abdullah Haron at a symposium on Ubuntu, religion and nation-building, a fitting tribute to a martyr in the struggle for a just and equal society. In African cosmology, a person’s name...

By ANWAR OMAR On Heritage Day, Newlands and Claremont residents retraced streets scarred by slavery, forced removals and apartheid, reclaiming erased histories of community, faith, resistance and non-racial sport through an annual walk of remembrance. This Heritage Day, Thursday, September 24, 2026, the Newlands/Claremont Heritage, Environmental Justice...

By IMAM DR ABDUL RASHIED OMAR Fifty-seven years after Imam Abdullah Haron was tortured to death in apartheid detention, the truth about his martyrdom is finally on record. Yet the absence of prosecutions leaves South Africa facing a deeper question of justice. This September marked 57 years...

By ANWAR OMAR The Mowbray Cemetery Board faces its first major accountability test since a court-driven governance reset, with its Constitution requiring an AGM in October and no date yet confirmed as the deadline for convening it steadily approaches. Muslim Views understands that certain officials on the...

By Liezl Human “One cannot complete one’s identity without language,” says award-winning author and poet Gaireyah Fredericks. She was speaking about the rich history of Kaaps at the Iziko Bo-Kaap museum’s Heritage Day event on Thursday. Kaaps is a unique vernacular with roots that go as far...

By HASSEN LORGAT The Cape Union Mart judgment raises difficult questions about corporate complicity, political speech and human rights, and whether South African law adequately confronts business links to grave abuses during the genocide in Palestine. Judging complicity is not an easy task, as the case heard...

By YASEEN BARDIEN When Hamza Hoosen’s mother quietly told him that his great-aunt, Aisha Nani, was sick, the then nine-year-old went somewhere quiet. His teacher at Wynberg Boys' Junior School later called his mother to say Hamza was upset and worried because Aisha Nani was in hospital....

By YASEEN BARDIEN Xenophobic violence, migrant rights and gaps in South Africa’s immigration system came under scrutiny at a NADEL branch meeting, where speakers urged lawyers, the media and government to confront discrimination and strengthen protection. The meeting, held on Wednesday, September 16, heard from Abdikadir Mohamed,...