Mitchell’s Plain day hospital is buckling under pressure as it deals with an influx of patients stemming from the closure of GF Jooste Hospital in Manenberg. VOC News received a concerning call from a member of the public regarding what she described as a frustrating experience at the Mitchells Plain[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has arranged a number of Ramadan outreach programs this weekend, in a bid to reconnect with the community during the sacred month of giving. MJC secretary-general Maulana Abdul Khaliq Allie said the first project they have lined up is a visit to the Porterville Prison[…]
Visitors to vocfm.co.za have doubled since the launch of the new website last year. Today marks one year since VOC launched a fresh, user-friendly site to complement the station’s new frequency on 91.3fm. The website, designed by Endor Media and Events, gives the VOC community access to an unprecedented array[…]
Thousands of displaced Syrians have been forced to live on hand-outs during Ramadan, as the country faces a severe food shortage. Many Syrians who were once self-sustainable and able to feed the poor have now become the impoverished. While a South African delegation of ulema travel to Syria this week[…]
Capetonians and members of the Egyptian ex-pat community will hold a rally at Darul Islam masjid in Surrey Estate on Friday to mark two years since the Egyptian coup of 2013. July 3 marks the day that Egypt’s military chief Abdel Fatah El Sisi removed democratically elected president Muhammad Morsi[…]
Everyday war, poverty and political unrest force people to leave their homelands in search of asylum and refuge in other countries. The United Nations estimates that by the end of 2014, almost 60 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict generalised violence or human rights[…]
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) are actively pursuing the release of several activists currently detained by Israeli authorities, following a third failed attempt at breaking an eight-year siege on the Gaza Strip. The ‘Marianne av Göteborg’, one of four Flotilla vessels attempting to reach the Gazan coast, was intercepted by[…]
Learners in Manenberg put their time to good use on Thursday as the Step Aboard Programme provided high school pupils with extra classes in Maths and Science. The programme, founded by Pastor Sam Henkerman is focussed on preparing grade 8, 9 and 10 pupils in life skills and academics for[…]
With growing fears that South African youth are becoming sympathetic to the violent and misguided brand of Islam propagated by the Islamic State (IS) or ISIS, a new youth organisation is mobilising young people to tackle this contemporary Islamic challenge. Muslim Youth United (MYU) was established in Ramadan of 2014[…]
Ramadan has been a heart-wrenching time for the Bassiouni family, as they grapple with the reality of their beloved father and ustaadh spending the most sacred month of the year inside prison. Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni, an Egyptian-South African citizen, was arrested in December last year on suspicion that he[…]
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