By Edwin Cameron Justice Edwin Cameron replies to an opinion piece in Daily Maverick by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein. and healing to the fraught issues arising from Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s live interview with The Jerusalem…
By Imraan Buccus Adam Habib has been an influential figure in the South African public sphere, as well as at Wits. His recent piece, “Verwoerd’s political stepchildren: Managing fascists, Stalinists and the intolerant”, asks some…
As Muslims, we must ask how we should begin to live up to the Islamic teachings of anti-racism. Kholofelo Molewa gave this Friday Nasiha which was live-streamed on Claremont Main Road Masjid social media platforms…
By Saba Aziz Amid rising Islamophobia, Muslim students show greater tendencies towards interfaith goodwill, a recent survey suggests. Musbah Shaheen left war-torn Syria in 2013 to attend college in the United States. As the then-19-year-old…
Many protesters have shown empathy for the unjustified killings of unarmed Palestinians protesters in Palestine, writes Iqbal Jassat. Does the current wave of protests across America, sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd, present…
By Imraan Buccus When the coronavirus first began to spread across the world every second pundit wrote a piece predicting that the world would not be the same again. Many looked to histories of the…
By Imraan Buccus It is inspiring that South Africans have expressed outrage at the murder of Geroge Floyd in the US, yet we are largely silent on the regular police murders at home. The murder…
Sadly, what confronts the Palestinian freedom struggle is the treason of a country which claims leadership of the Muslim world – Saudi Arabia has come full circle, writes Iqbal Jassat. A brutal legacy of Apartheid…
The lockdown has been a time of introspection and a time to put ones house in order, writes Dr Imraan Kola. Often on my morning commute to Baragwanth Hospital (Soweto’s largest) I pass by the…
By ImraanBuccus History shows that the reputation of politicians is often made or broken in a crisis. So far Cyril Ramaphosa is having a very good crisis as far as the middle classes, black and…