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by NONTOBEKO AISHA MKHWANAZI AS we celebrate Women’s Month, it’s important to recognise the powerful role that young Muslim women are playing in South Africa’s media landscape. Their voices are making waves, bringing fresh perspectives and driving change in ways...

‘As we celebrate the strides made by women this Women’s Month, we need to emulate the moral values of those who came before us. Part of that is equipping our children, especially young girls, with the skills needed to navigate...

Tarikh al-Brasil, which can be translated from Arabic as 'History of Brazil', is a visual research project by MARCELLO SCHELLINI on the visibility/ invisibility of Muslims of African origin in Brazilian history and society. With more than four hundred years...

ZIYAD MOTALA cites examples from the time of the Prophet (SAW) and the caliphs to illustrate how the Saudis’ reaction to a peaceful protest near the Prophet’s (SAW) resting place against a delegation of Pakistani politicians is a distortion of...

AS the Zionist entity tries to tighten its stranglehold on Bayt al-Maqdis, a grassroots global initiative has been launched to promote the love of the city’s enduring sacred symbol, Masjid al-Aqsa. FARID SAYED reports. Organisations from over 50 countries have...

EBRAHIM MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO does a comparative analysis of the presidencies of Mandela, Mbeki, Zuma and Ramaphosa, arguing why they could not risk even the slightest possibility of a revolutionary shift to the left. Introduction HOW a society works is...

FOLLOWING the United Nations (UN) Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome from July 26 to 28 – a prequel to the Head of State-level Summit in New York, this September – faith communities from across Africa continue to call attention to...

There is no shame in weeping, especially over those who made the world a better place through their illuminative existence and diligent work, writes DR YOUSUF PATEL. AS the sadness and grief of losing the Cape’s prodigious son sets in,...

MUFTI MUHAMMAD HAFFEJEE, finance desk manager at Jamiatul Ulama South Africa, reviews a damning report which exposes the duplicity of large financial advisory institutions. IF you’ve always wanted to be an ­accountant but fortune found you ­elsewhere, and you are now...

DR ESHAAM PALMER points to the ‘unintended’ consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. THE current COVID-19 pandemic has taken many people by surprise and has generally had negative consequences, with millions of people being infected and hundreds of thousands dying. Occurring...