A coalition of organisations in Cape Town have come together to form a united front against the City of Cape Town’s planned closure of the Good Hope Centre. These organisations now intend to mobilise and host a massive march to protest against the City’s leasing of the iconic venue to[…]
It is imperative prospective hujjaj clarify the terms of their package prior to signing any agreements with hajj operators, according to the South African Hajj Operators Association (Sathoa). The advice comes with little under a month before Muslims the world over descended upon the holy cities of Makkah and Madina[…]
An iconic bakery and co-ordination centre set up on the Turkish border to facilitate humanitarian assistance to Syria’s refugees has gone up in flames. The centre in the town of Reyhanli – well known to aid workers from across the world(including South Africa) and run by the Turkish charity IHH –[…]
OPINION by Hamid Dabashi – United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama Doctrine that one might venture to call and consider “de-Zionising the American empire”. Does this speech, and a whole array of[…]
Conflating extremism and terrorism with cohesion and integration, the latest speech by Britain Prime Minister, David Cameron has raised many concerns over its efficiency in fighting ISIL, with many warning that it would only lead to linking the vast moderate Muslims with terror. “For many, Cameron’s conflation of extremism and[…]
In a broad swathe of the Central African Republic (CAR) — roughly the western third of the country — the country’s Muslim minority has largely disappeared. The site of a violent wave of ethnic cleansing in early 2014, this region still very much suffers from its consequences. While a few[…]
The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) did not take into consideration that its decisions would unfairly discriminate against poor people, according to the City of Cape Town. “It’s poor people that live alongside the N1 and N2. The wealthy live in the suburbs and the Atlantic Seaboard,” senior counsel for[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s mid-year review on the economy is a farce, Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane said on Wednesday. “It was an exercise in saying how we have a plan, it’s working and we must continue with the same plan,” he told News24 at the South West Gauteng College in[…]
A foreign national has been nabbed in Ottery with a stash of drugs estimated to have a street value of R4m. Western Cape police said the discovery and his arrest on Wednesday morning was a “significant blow” to the province’s illegal drug trade. The 32-year-old raised the suspicions of officers[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group’s Egypt affiliate, the Sinai Province, has published a still photo of the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service reported. The photo included a caption that said “killing of the[…]
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