‘Spread Good News, Not Fake News’
By Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar In this Friday Nasiha I would like to entreat and implore all of us to be very careful about passing on information that has NOT been verified because passing…
Author Archives: Al-Qalam
‘Don’t become a deadly super-spreader this Eid-ul-Adha!’
A communal Eid-ul-Adha may be out of the question if we are going to stem the high loss of life of Muslims through Covid infections, writes an Al-Qalam Reporter. Islamic scholar in Durban, Shaykh Rafeek…
AWQAF-SA and SADN partner to host digital marketing training in Durban
Durban NGO’s recently came together at a training session hosted by Awqaf SA and Southern Africa Dawah Network (SADN) to focus on how to excel in the area of Digital Marketing. The training session, held…
Turning point: Zuma has dug his own grave and can expect little support, even in KZN
By Imraan Buccus The ConCourt judgment is a definite demonstration that South Africa has not become a complete banana republic. The judgment of the Constitutional Court against Jacob Zuma is a defining moment in our…
Democracy in peril
Democracy will not survive in its current form with such extreme rates of unemployment. It will either be rolled back or deepened. By Imraan Buccus As New Frame observed in a recent searing editorial, unemployment in South Africa…
Yes! I became a fringe lunatic over stinky sardines…
Al-Qalam journalist Ismail Suder who doubles as an Instagrammer @jimny-go-afrika tells how he caught the Sardine Fever bug. When “Sardine Fever” hit the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast this week, this Al Qalam newshound was there to…
‘Motivated by hate’: Muslim family run over in Canada
Police in the Canadian province of Ontario said a driver intentionally struck a family because they were Muslim, killing four people and seriously injuring a nine-year-old boy in what has been denounced as an “act…
Probe underway on honeymoon couple’s tragic death by shower electrocution
Just two week ago, Zaheer Sarang and Nabeela Khan of Crosby, Johannesburg made nikah and vowed to be with each other in marriage, but their promising lives took a horrid turn when both were tragically…
#Africa4Palestine mourns the loss of its Board Member, Cde Khaya Xaba
We are devastated. Today we lost an internationalist, an activist, a trade unionist, a defender of workers, a champion of the oppressed, an ally of the Palestinians … today we lost a friend. #Africa4Palestine joins…
MRN: ‘We commemorate #Black4Rohingya with their cries for freedom’
#Black4Rohingya is an annual event reminding us that the genocide against ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar hasn’t ended. Though a million or more have had to flee the barbarity of violent ethnic-cleansing to find refuge in…