Opinion and Analysis Articles

By Naseerah Nanabhai 07/11/2019   In the past few decades, eating alone has become common. Food stores have encouraged this. With single seating arrangements and many other considerations that facilitate the solo experience. But eating alone can have negative...

  By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 07/11/2019 Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner has stated that thousands of Rohingya, currently living in the border refugee camps, have agreed to move to the island despite the fear of the island flooding during the monsoon period. Around 800...

    By Naseerah Nanabhai 31/10/2019 On Thursday the 24th of October, news broke of an apparent hacking of City of Jo'burg systems. A cybercrime syndicate called Shadow Kill hackers is believed to be behind the hack. They issued a notice that the City of Joburg had...

  By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 30/10/2019 Kurds make up about 7% of Syria's population. Before the uprising, the Kurds lived in the main cities of Syria. While they have been denied basic human rights in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria the Kurds have been denied basic citizenship...

    By Naseerah Nanabhai 28/10/2019 A protest is often defined as an action expressing disapproval of or objection to something. Protests by people are often provoked by conditions such as discrimination, poverty, high unemployment, poor schools, poor healthcare,...

    By Annisa Essack 28 October 2019   The fallout from the implosion in the DA seems to be unending as Mmusi Maimane dropped another bombshell on Thursday via Twitter when he resigned from Parliament. The news widened the fault lines within the DA and the immediate...

  By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 24/10/2019 Since mid-October 2019, Lebanese citizens from all walks of life have taken to the streets in an unprecedented protest, that not only transcended sectarian but also social and economical ones. The demand for the Lebanese cabinet to...

  By Mumtaz Saley  22/10/2019 Radio Islam teamed up with the South African National Women’s forum to deliver the first-ever Youth Conference.  The idea behind the event was to allow young females to find a safe space while bridging the gap between the youth and...

  Faizel Patel, Radio Islam - 22-10-2019 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143)   Esteemed Islamic scholar Ml Ebrahim Bham says there is a great interaction between conditions in the country and peoples actions. Ml Bham was rendering a lecture about the current challenges facing...