With the blessed month of Ramadan having reached its climax, Muslims are now looking forward to the annual moon-sighting which will mark Eid-ul-Fitr and the start of Shawwal. Locally, Capetonians will descend on Three Anchor Bay on Thursday evening to spot the new crescent, which has become a key cultural[…]
Members of the Manenberg Safety Forum (MSF) and concerned residents will be meeting gang leaders on Wednesday evening to salvage a shaky truce established between warring gangs. The Forum’s Rugshanda Pascoe says the community hopes to have gang leaders sign their declaration for peace, in an attempt to hold them[…]
The Media Review Network (MRN) has welcomed government’s quick response in acting on the arrest of 10 South African nationals in China, but in the same breathe has questioned its failure to respond in the same manner with regards to the Sheikh Abdus Salaam Jad Bassiouni case.The 10 individuals are[…]
The South African National Zakah Fund (SANZAF) released their 2015 Audited National Annual Financial Statements onWednesday, which can be viewed on www.sanzaf.org.za. This release is a record for SANZAF as it achieved this within 45 days of the financial year end. The total funds distributed and expended have increased by 21%,[…]
Maxim Kids, a non-profit organisation in Cape Town is calling on the community to support them on Friday 17th July for a charity boxing fight at Sea Point Civic Centre. The organisation, which focuses on the development of the sport of boxing for children in disadvantaged communities in South Africa,[…]
Coordinators of VOC’s flagship Ahlan Wa Sahlan (AWS) Ramadaan outreach programme have hailed the success of the campaign’s 16th edition, after the project came to conclusion this past weekend. Organisers estimate that some 3000 Muslims were fed over the three week campaign. Each year community members come out in their[…]
Manenberg residents say they have little knowledge about the future of the GF Jooste Hospital but call on the City of Cape Town to stick to their initial plan of renovating the structure to provide better medical care to the community. This follows an outcry from Manenberg CPF’s Pastor Lewellyn[…]
Yemen is on the edge of civil war yet television screens worldwide are not bombarding viewers with images of children dying and people suffering as a result of a Saudi led coalition against the country. Yemen is strategically important because it sits on the Bab al-Mandab strait, a narrow waterway[…]
The South African Students Congress (SASCO) has suspended some of its members who participated in a recent trip to Israel. Local Palestinian solidarity organisations have labelled these holidays as “propaganda trips”, an attempt by the Zionist lobby to wage a counter offensive to the local solidarity campaigns. SASCO believes the[…]
There has been a drastic rise in crime in the Strandfontein community over the past five years, according to the area’s Social and Economic Development Forum. The declaration comes as residents lament the tragic murder of aspiring English teacher, Chad Barron who was hijacked, assaulted with a brick, and stabbed[…]
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