We must ensure that the Muslim Rohingya people do not disappear into the footnotes of history, writes Shabnam Ebrahim Mayet, a Johannesburg advocate and co-founder of Protect the Rohingya. It is disingenuous to call the…
The International Coalition for Freedoms and Rights (ICFR) had welcomed the decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to investigate a complaint filed against Egypt for violating Articles of the African Charter…
President Abdel Fatah Al Sisi may have cancelled his trip to attend the African Union Summit in Johannesburg for fear of being arrested and hauled before the International Criminal Court, writes Ismail Suder Fearing possible…
By Shafiq Morton The notion that the Islamic State (ISIS), or Da’ish, would not extend its reach to South Africa has proved a false one. ISIS, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, has persuaded…
Community trailblazer, Zuleikha Mayat, launched her travel book in which she vividly describes her journeys through many exotic lands at a time when overseas travel was difficult. Ismail Suder attended the event. When South African…
Imams from across the country had delivered a khutbah on friday the 29th May 2015 warning South African Muslims to be wary about the dangers of ISIS and to be wary of the group’s recruitment activities…
By Al Qalam Reporter So what do you do when you don’t have the space or the money to put up a fully fledged library at your school – you improvise with a “fold-up trolley”…
By Ismail Suder Anti-apartheid activist and prominent South African businessman, Tokyo Sexwale, held high-level meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the head of the Palestine Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, to hear testimony on how…
This letter is a response to Ebrahim Rasool’s (ex-Western Cape Premier) lecture hosted by Al Qalam newspaper. The people in the Middle East and North Africa are facing daunting challenges with various dictatorships, Israeli colonialism,…
The ugliness of xenophobia makes us all shrink in horror as we witnessed our beloved Rainbow Nation imploding with satanic fury. We must root out all residual negative and derogatory names calling of our brethren…