Muslim Views
Muslim Views is South Africa’s oldest Muslim newspaper with a publishing record dating back to 1960. It was first published as Muslim News on 16 December 1960 and its first editor was Imam Abdullah Haron, a renowned anti-Apartheid activist who was killed by the South African security police in 1969. Muslim News has a proud history of resistance against Apartheid and solidarity with the cause for freedom and liberation in South Africa. Among its milestones is its survival of banning orders of no less than 21 editions of the paper.
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Hajj industry tainted by visas black market
'HOW desperate are you to go to Makkah?' the Sure Mirage Travel agent asked Shamsuniesa Roberts. 'I really would like to go,' Roberts replied. She had hoped to undertake the Hajj with her husband. 'Well, I might be the bearer of good news,' Mumtaz Mia rejoined.
Big Walk awarded naming rights at Red Cross
The organising committee of the 1Up 10km Big Walk presented by Spice Mecca was awarded special recognition by Red Cross Children’s Hospital at a function on September 15.
A new Burns Unit was officially opened at the hospital at a cost of R16 million and naming rights to the operational manager’s office at the unit was awarded to the Big Walk.
Quds Day marchers call on SA to impose sanctions on Israel
THE Islamic Unity Convention (IUC) has challenged the Western Cape Legislature to be the first South African province to boycott the Zionist state of Israel. The call was made by the IUC’s public relations officer and chairperson of the Islamic Women’s Forum, Mahbooba Davids. She was addressing hundreds of people who marched through the streets of Cape Town in solidarity with Al Quds Day.
Somalia: a country in need of a revolution
by MPHO RABORIFE and SAKEENA SULIMAN
NEWSPAPER and TV images portray hunger in Somalia but a much grimmer picture was described by Gift of the Givers founder, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, recollecting his week there.
"It was heartbreaking. Children are dying slowly. Parents are watching their children die in front of their eyes and can't do a thing about it," he said. The famine in Somalia, more particularly in the capital city of Mogadishu, is due to the worst drought the Horn of Africa has seen in 60 years and has left thousands without food and water.
The root causes of the Somali famine
By Shafiq Morton.
The 21st century has brought with it tremendous technological progress but, allied with predatory capitalism, has offered selective benefits. Extreme rich-poor divides bedevil most developing countries that provide raw materials for this technology, and in failed states such as the DRC and Somalia, poverty has only deepened.This century has also seen some of our worst natural disasters, many brought about by the combined forces of man and nature.
Faith communities rally against climate change
LEADERS and representatives from South Africa's religious communities gathered in Botha's Hill, Durban for a three-day conference on the impacts on climate change in preparation for Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP17), to be hosted in Durban later this year.
Hosted by South Africa’s national environmental agency Indalo Yethu; the South African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI); the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Economic Justice Network (EJN), the conference demanded that ‘moral, ethical and spiritual principles, and not profit or economic gain, be applied in the COP17 negotiations to secure a common future for humanity’.
