Surrey Estate was the scene of chaos late Monday night following a shooting and attempted robbery at a convenience store at the busy Engen petrol station. Armed suspects stormed into the Primrose Supermarket in Surrey Estate on the corner of Comet and Ruimte road and held up staff and customers.[…]
A group of Muslim lawyers and activists have called for the arrest of Egyptian president Abdel Fatah El Sisi when he arrives on South African soil next week. The Egyptian leader will visit South Africa on June 16th for the 25th African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg. The Muslim Lawyers[…]
Nearly 26 families facing possible eviction from their council owned homes in Wynberg have received temporary respite, after the City of Cape Town provisionally withdrew plans to terminate their lease agreements. The families reside in houses situated along South Road, where the City has sought to make way for a[…]
In the 21st century, Islam faces challenges: social, economic, political and theological: 9/11, 7/7 and the birth of Al-Qa’idah; wars in the East and Islamophobia in the west. And then there is the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). With real concerns that youth in South Africa are becoming susceptible to the ideologies[…]
Cape Town is known to many as the ‘Mother City’. It is from the foot of Table Mountain that Cape Town gave to South Africa its trek Boers and its English pioneers. For the Muslims of South Africa it has an even greater importance – it is where Islam first[…]
There are approximately 23 kramats (shrines or tombs) in the Cape Town region that hold the remains of pious Muslim men known by some as the ‘friends of God’. These men have been laid to rest in the kramats because of the contribution that they made to Islamic identity in[…]
An illegal occupant has left the home of claimant, Tahir Levy in District Six, uninhabitable after three years of occupying the home. Rightful claimant, Levy along with officials from the Regional Lands Claims Commissioner visited the home on Friday to inspect the damages. During the inspection, clear indications of[…]
Statistics shows that roughly 11.4 million children in South Africa are forced to cope with abject poverty, neglect and abuse on an almost daily basis; with little hope of respite. These children either reside in broken homes, child care facilities or on the countries streets. In line with the annual[…]
With the global war on extremism at its highest point in years, criticism continues to mount that a more aggressive model of action has only but further isolated communities where radicalism is most prevalent. Most at risk of falling into the trip are those in smaller and more impoverished areas,[…]
Residents in Bishop Lavis are relieved that notorious gang leader, George ‘Geweld’ Thomas was handed seven life sentences this week, in one of South Africa’s biggest gang trials that spanned years. The local Community Police Forum chairperson Graham Lindhorst says incidents involving gang related violence has slightly decreased as the[…]
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