At a time when Muslims in America are facing scorn and bigotry, the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali should be remembered as the true, peaceful face of Islam, residents of his home town say. Hundreds of people filed past his childhood home in Louisville on Sunday, now a museum dedicated[…]
A new Arabic version of the award-winning app ShareTheMeal has been launched to mark the begining of the holy month of Ramadan. The app allows users to feed a Syrian refugee child for a day at the touch of a button. The World Food Programme (WFP) app invites users to[…]
At least 53 people, including children, have been killed in government air strikes in Syria’s Aleppo city, activists have said. Dozens of barrel bombs – oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel – were dropped by military helicopters on the heavily populated al-Qatriji neighbourhood, the Syrian Observatory for[…]
South Africa’s security agencies are capable of ensuring the safety of the people residing in the country‚ the government said on Saturday in response to an alert by the US government about the threat of possible terrorist attacks at places frequented by US citizens. The US diplomatic mission in South Africa[…]
Congestion on Cape Town’s roads is unlikely to be completely alleviated, despite the city council’s plans to spend R750 million on road upgrades over the next five years. Transport for Cape Town (TCT) says this is because of the rate at which the city is growing, exacerbated by the inadequate[…]
Struggling Grade 11 pupils pushed through to the class of 2017 might be able write their matric examination over two years. A proposal to allow “progressed” pupils – those who failed Grade 11 twice but were nevertheless promoted to Grade 12 – to write the first half of their examination in[…]
President Jacob Zuma has urged South Africans not to vote for opposition parties because they do not have experience to govern the country. Addressing thousands of ANC supporters who almost filled the 43 000 seat Mbombela Stadium at the provincial launch of the ANC’s local government election manifesto in Mbombela[…]
It was Feb. 25, 1964 in Miami, a skillful, mouthy young boxer from Louisville, Ky., Cassius Clay, had just beaten his opponent Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world. Something else, though, was also stirring in his soul. He and his brother, then Rudolph Clay, had been talking for[…]
Of all the tributes being paid to Muhammad Ali, few can match the praise that the former boxer heaped upon himself. Ali, in his own words, was the “prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skilfullest fighter in the ring”. Elvis Presley was the 20th century’s king of Rock ‘n’[…]
The moon for Ramadan 1437 has not been sighted in South Africa, the Crescent Observers Society announced on Sunday. The first taraweeh prayer will be held on Monday evening and the first day of Ramadan will be on Tuesday. In making the official announcement on air, new president of the[…]
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