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 that are both inspiring and impactful. Each...

‘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 an ever-evolving world.'   by NONTOBEKO AISHA...

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 of presence in Brazil, African Muslims first...

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 the right of dissent in Islam. A...

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 pledged their support to the campaign, declaring...

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 informed by a dynamic relationship between ideology,...

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 the wide range of far-reaching consequences of...

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, the bitter reality and sequalae of separation...

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 trying to live your dream through an...

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 simultaneously with the phenomenon of climate change,...