A new leadership will now steer the South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) following elections at its Annual General Meeting on Sunday. Maulana Muhammad Vaid takes over the president position from Shaheen Essop, who is now deputy president. The previous head of the haj missions, Hafez Ismail Kholvadia was[…]
As matriculants prepare for the important examinations of their school career to date – the 2017 Senior Certificate examinations, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) Presidency and its structures has wished the class of 2017 well. “We remind you that only with hard work and the necessary effort ploughed into your[…]
A Grassy Park family are praying that the body of a 32 year old diver surfaces, after two difficult days of searching at sea. Muhammad Nur Mitchell went missing yesterday at Saunders rocks in Bantry Bay after he went diving with his brother in law and never returned from the[…]
There are fears that the assassination attempt on a well-known Cape Town gang leader could spark reprisal attacks across the city. Fifty year old Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen, the alleged leader of the Sexy Boys, was shot four times at Cape Town International airport on Wednesday, by an unknown gunman –[…]
The Grassy Park Community Police Forum (CPF) has commended the Grassy Park SAPS for arresting a major drug dealer in Parkwood Estate. Western Cape police said partnership policing between SAPS and the community yielded success on Wednesday night when a firearm, ammunition and drugs were seized in Grassy Park during[…]
Breast cancer, the cancer affecting women in South Africa the most, is all the talk this October. In keeping with International Pink Hijab Day, the Voice of the Cape (VOC) this week launched its annual Pink Hijab Day 2017 – ‘My sickness is my cure’. The theme speaks to the[…]
After 30 years of hard work in the trenches of Africa’s most impoverished communities, African Muslim Agency (AMA) indeed had much to celebrate on Saturday 14th October at a gala dinner held in Cape Town. With some of the country’s esteemed scholars, academics, businesspeople and community activists in attendance, AMA[…]
By Yaseen Kippie While South Africans feel the country is in bleak state given the current political upheaval and weak economy, world renowned speaker Yvonne Ridley calls our country a place of optimism, and an example for the Middle East. Ridley is a British journalist, who was captured by the Taliban[…]
By Thakira Desai Being raised in an activist family, former South African ambassador to Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Dangor and his siblings joined the struggle at an early age. Five of the nine siblings actively took part in the struggle, one dying as member of the Azanian People’s[…]
By Najma Bibi Noor Mahomed “I don’t need anything… there are people that don’t even have running water.” These were the words of 48 year old Abdurahmaan Roopen, who despite his home gutted by a devastating blaze last week, is remarkably content. Roopen is the caretaker of the Shaykh Nurul[…]
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