By Iqbal Jassat Having read Pastor Tom Mofokeng’s scurrilous attempt (City Press, June 17) to discredit and undermine Reverend Frank Chikane, it astounded me to discover a complete absence of substance in his letter. The…
What these leaders don’t know or choose to not know, is that imperial powers will use them to do their dirty jobs and then discard them, writes Dr Mustafa Mheta. News that the new Zambian President Hakainde…
This new column, by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, will focus on his experiences of engaging the Muslim world; in the majority heartlands, and where Muslims are the minority. Over the last two decades I have been…
By Imraan Buccus The right-wing authoritarianism that has surged in much of the world in recent years was defeated in the US, and just been dealt a body blow in Colombia. The buffoonish Boris Johnson…
By: Imraan Buccus The journalist is among more than 50 reporters who have died at the hands of the Israeli regime and is remembered for bravely giving a voice to Palestinians. The world is appalled by…
By Imraan Buccus This past week over 2.1 billion Muslims across the globe celebrated Eid al-Fitr to mark the end of the month-long fasting period of Ramadan. A third of that number are from the…
By: Imraan Buccus Some deaths cannot matter more than others and neither can some conflicts be treated as more horrendous than the rest. But that is what the West seems to be saying. Last week the…
By Iqbal Jassat Finally, with a devastating war on its doorstep, Europe called out Russia for committing crimes of “collective punishment” – a term it studiously avoids using against Israel. For Europe, America and the…
This is a summary of a Jumu’ah Khutbah given by Professor Aslam Fataar of Stellenbosch University at Strandfontein Masjid recently. The topic was Adab-al-Ihsan or beautiful conduct. The waqt of jumu’ah emphasises the need for…
By Imraan Buccus From the peak of the Covid 19 crisis in 2020 to the July riots a year later and the floods last week; KwaZulu-Natal has been hit hard. With over 400 people dead…