The Hamas movement has denied that it reached a long-term agreement with Israel, member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s politburo said Wednesday. Saleh Zeidan’s statement came after a Palestinian faction meeting that included the Hamas movement, the DFLP, PFLP, Islamic Jihad and the PPP in the[…]
As VOC celebrates 21 years of Ramadan broadcasting, it has adopted a novel initiative in partnership with Awqaf South Africa, to renovate certain masajid in impoverished communities across the Cape Flats this Ramadan. The VOC/Awqaf Masjid Renovation Project supported by Sanzaf is a first and will see the radio station taking its[…]
The moon was sighted in Cape Town on Wednesday evening, the Crescent Observers Society announced live on VOC. The new crescent was also spotted in Nelspruit, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria. “Its been confirmed with every organisation in South Africa. Tonight (Wednesday) will be the first Taraweeh and tomorrow (Thursday) will[…]
Although conditions may differ for South Africa’s Muslim youth in comparison to generations before them, their struggles are no less difficult or challenging. So says activists from the Muslim Youth Movement (MYM), as the country celebrated 39 years since the tragic events of the Soweto uprising in 1976. The organisation[…]
The following is the pre-Jumuah Khutbah delivered by Minhaj Jeenah at Claremont Main Road mosque on Friday, ahead of Youth Day. Jeenah is the chairperson of the Muslim Youth Movement. He is also the son of well known political analyst Naeem Jeenah and the late gender activist Shamima Shaikh. His[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s opposing affidavit in an application to review a decision to drop the corruption charges against him is completely misleading, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. Zuma, who was the third respondent in the so-called spy tape matter, filed his opposing affidavit last month. “Mr Zuma and his[…]
National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise would not allow questions about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s controversial visit to South Africa to be asked during Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s question and answer session on Wednesday. Ramaphosa was asked by DA NCOP member Jacques Julius why government allowed Al-Bashir to leave[…]
The ‘superior’ role men assume in relationships is at the core of gender-based violence bedevilling the Bredasdorp community, a study has revealed. Western Cape MEC for Community Safety Dan Plato said on Monday that the Bredasdorp community had been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the last[…]
The United Nations is scrambling to get Yemen peace talks in Geneva moving with both the exiled government and the Iran-backed Yemeni rebels accusing each other of trying to sabotage the process. The UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, began shuttle diplomacy in Geneva trying to bridge[…]
The Palestinian unity government formed last year in a bid to heal rifts between Hamas and president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party resigned on Wednesday, an official said. “Hamdallah handed his resignation to Abbas and Abbas ordered him to form a new government,” Nimr Hammad, an adviser to Abbas, told AFP,[…]
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