Islamic scholars in Gauteng descended on the Muslim community in Roshnee on Wednesday evening to openly confront the dangers posed by the Islamic State (IS). The ulema feel there is a greater sense of urgency after recent allegations that a 15 year old Cape Town girl had attempted to flee[…]
Registration has now officially opened for the Muslim Students Association’s (MSA Union) inaugural National Qur’an Conference, an event that is expected to take a more educational approach to the study of the Holy Quran. The conference, which seeks to highlight the value the religious text can play in the everyday[…]
The Nkandla parliamentary process has stalled until clarity about certain procedures has been obtained from Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of Government Business. “The moment the deputy president [Ramaphosa] is back in the country, I will stage a sit-in in his office … so we can get on with[…]
The Western Cape High Court ruled on Thursday that SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng be suspended for 60 days pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing. Judge Ashton Schippers granted Motsoeneng leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, but his interim suspension must take place with immediate effective, the[…]
Thousands of people from all walks of life gathered at Pieter Roos Park in Hillbrow, Johannesburg on Thursday. The multi-cultural and multi-coloured crowd held aloft banners, posters and placards to protest against the recent attacks on foreign nationals in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that left at least seven people[…]
Late on April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities in Constantinople — now the Turkish city of Istanbul — rounded up more than 200 local members of the Armenian ethnic minority, many of them community leaders. Most were later killed. On Friday, that day will be marked by Armenians worldwide as the[…]
Twenty-four coffins containing the only bodies recovered from the Mediterranean’s worst-ever migrant disaster have been laid out for a memorial service in Malta for the estimated 800 victims. Malta’s president and prime minister, Italy’s interior minister and the EU’s migration commissioner were present for Thursday’s service, which includes Christian and[…]
Southern Chile’s Calbuco volcano has erupted for the second time in a day, after being dormant for about half a century. The first eruption on Wednesday sent a thick plume of ash and smoke several kilometres into the sky, local television images showed. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated[…]
The Armenian community of the Holy Land this week marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of a series of massacres and pogroms against the community in their ancestral homeland in Eastern Anatolia. Large numbers of the community’s approximately 5,000 members in Palestine are expected to take part in commemorations[…]
Two Iranian warships reached the Gulf of Aden just off the coast of Yemen on Wednesday, as Saudi Arabia said Iran had “absolutely no role to play” in the impoverished country. Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported that two warships had arrived at the Gulf of Aden, a strategic waterway[…]
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