A Cape Town Muslim woman has successfully challenged the right to stay in her marital home after her ex-husband tried to evict her. On Thursday, the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court dismissed the application of Adnaan Isaacs to evict his ex-wife, Gadija Isaacs from the marital home, which they resided in during[…]
Following the attempted assault on renowned Zimbabwean scholar Mufti Ismail Menk, secretary general of the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa Moulana Ebrahim Bham has voiced his concerns about the incident. “This particular aspect of extremism which has reared its head in our community perturbs me tremendously,” Moulana Bham told Radio Islam.[…]
Passengers wishing to travel between South Africa and the Ebola high-risk areas in West Africa must request permission from the health department, SA Airways said on Thursday. Spokesman Tlali Tlali said this was a new procedure that had been introduced. “All travellers between South Africa and the Ebola high-risk areas[…]
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Reverend Mpho Tutu on Thursday appealed for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to be left alone to do her work. “Maligning the public protector besmirches not only the ruling party, but the entire country. We are proud that South Africa has an Office of the Public[…]
The ad hoc committee that will deliberate on President Jacob Zuma’s response to investigations into public spending at his Nkandla home will meet on Friday. In April, Zuma declined to respond in full to Madonsela’s report within the requisite fortnight. Madonsela found he had violated the Executive Ethics Code by[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine Friday to open a “humanitarian corridor” to allow besieged Ukrainian troops to retreat. “I call on the rebel forces to open a humanitarian corridor for the Ukrainian troops who are surrounded, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties and to give[…]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday slammed “brutal killings of civilians” by Islamic State rebels in northern Iraq, saying the Sunni radical group was tearing apart whole communities. The rebels have taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, and have declared a “caliphate” in the territory they[…]
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a new road map for containing the virus, and scientists are fast-tracking efforts to find a treatment or[…]
The beheading of US journalist James Foley at the hands of Islamic State (IS) righters has sent shockwaves across the media landscape, bringing into question the safety of journalists in such conflict zones. Foley’s murder echoed the similar killing of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl in 2002, and highlighted[…]
The students of the Al Azhar primary school have taken it upon themselves to assist the men, women and children affected by Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza, by personally raising funds towards VOC’s own Gaza Water Project. Through a massive fundraising campaign at the school over the past two weeks,[…]
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