As awareness campaigns increase in various sectors around the source of the listeriosis outbreak, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has assured communities that it has taken the necessary steps to prevent the further spread of the disease. On Sunday, the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced that Tiger[…]
By Tasneem Adams While the halal certification processes at abatoirs and manufacturing plants include hygiene and food safety compliance, the Muslim Judicial Council Halal Trust (MJCHT) says it does not have the capacity to conduct regular scientific testing into microbial contamination of food products. This is according to the MJCHT[…]
Following investigations of complaints of mismanagement in the local umrah industry, VOC News was alerted to two families, the Anthony’s and the Patel’s, who were left stranded only days before they were scheduled to perform the spiritual journey. While the Anthony’s have requested that their story not be told at[…]
By Wardah Wilkinson The National Consumer Commission says it wants a proper disposal plan from Tiger Brands and RCL Foods, the parent companies of Enterprise and Rainbow Chicken. The companies have come under fire, after it was found that the deadly strain of listeriosis, which has killed 180 people, had[…]
As a famous English proverb goes, ‘two minds are better than one’. In this case, collective minds came together to make a big impact. Moulana Suhail Wadee of Ashraful Uloom in Marlboro, Johannesburg, initiated #OperationWater: a water-collection drive for the drought-stricken city of Cape Town. The project’s success is owed[…]
Two shipping containers of relief aid were closed and transported to the Cape Town harbour today where it will make its one month journey to Syrian Refugee camps on the Turkey/Syrian border. The containers were filled by the Muslim Judicial Council’s Women’s Forum, who rallied regional co-ordinators, family, friends and[…]
A Lentegeur police officer’s double murder and suicide has placed the issue of the psychological trauma faced by police officers in South African Police Service in sharp focus. According to Rafique Foflonker from the Mitchells Plain Cluster Community Police Board, policemen and women in South Africa are facing severe emotional[…]
After three weeks of intense rallying of the Cape Town community, the Muslim Judicial Council’s Women’s Forum will do the final packing of the shipping container bound for the Syrian/Turkey border on Saturday. Thanks to the donations received from the community, the container, this group of passionate community workers from[…]
Gift of the Givers says it believes someone is giving the kidnappers of South African photo journalist Shiraz Mohamad false information, which has led to the delay in negotiations for his release. Mohamed was captured in Syria in January last year, on his way back to the Turkish border after[…]
A hostage drama has turned bloody with the deaths of three people in Lentegeur in Mitchells Plain. On Thursday morning, drama ensued in Begonia street when a 41-year old police member who worked at Lentegeur police station shot and killed two women aged 54 and 27, before taking his own[…]
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