Shakirah Hunter For the longest time, work has been our defining factor. Our only measure of success. As young...
Opinion and Analysis Articles
We have became our parents
By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 09:12:2021 As the door of the fridge opens for the nine millionth time, and my kids are on their...
HOW YOU END THE YEAR MATTERS- ENDING WITH GRACE AND GRATITUDE
Shakirah Hunter It has been a topsy-turvy twister of a year. A year of high achievements and extreme lows. We have all...
Imagine being arrested immediately on your return from Hajj..
Ebrahim Moosa - Radio Islam | 04 Muharram 1438/05 October 2016 A homecoming from Hajj is a wonder to behold. For successive years, I relished in witnessing -first hand - the boundless joy at the OR Tambo International Airport as entire families waited in anticipation...
Shimon Peres: How can a man who was ‘at peace’ with the coldblooded slaughter of refugees, ever rest in peace?
Ebrahim Moosa - Opinion | 29 September 2016 When he visited South Africa earlier this year, a bunch of feisty protestors huddled close to the venue he was speaking in, holding placards - some even having their hands dipped in red paint, symbolic of the bloodletting...
Ziyarah of the Bazaars!
Ebrahim Moosa | 26 September 2016 (with reporting from Agencies) After the Hajj rites are over, and Ziyarah(visitation) of the key Islamic sites are completed, there is ostensibly another Ziyarah that many Hujaaj indulge in. Seasoned Hijaz traveller and Hajj educator,...
Hajj 2016 by the numbers
Radio Islam International | 09 Dhul Hijjah 1437/10 September 2016 A compendium of mindblowing statistics on various aspects of Hajj 2016/1437. Compiled from various online sources PILGRIM NUMBERS 2240 from Sri Lanka 3685 from Kyrgyzstan 143 368 from Pakistan 156 000...
CNN correspondent awestruck by the Hajj
Radio Islam International | 08 Dhul Hijjah 1437/09 September 2016 The Hajj season draws into the Holy Lands lenses and correspondents from all over the world. Just as the Hajj is the largest global spiritual journey, it is also a staggeringly mammoth media event, that...
Weekly Panel Discussion – Madinah Munawwarah
Date: 04 September 2016 Presenter: Ml Ubaidullah Bhoja Guests: Ml Muhammad Ameer; Ml Yunus Ali; Ml Abdullah Jeenah The glory and the grandeur of the city of the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam), Madinah Munawwarah is unparalleled. As many of the Hujjaj...
The ‘obscenity’ of elections
Ebrahim Moosa - Radio Islam | 22 August 2016 The flurry of coalition talks and the formal election of mayors we have witnessed in several councils across our nation this week marks the culmination of the 2016 election season, and the official commencement of another...
The shocking moral depravity of the Olympic Games
Ebrahim Moosa - 09 August 2016 Every 4 years, the world is taken by storm by the summer Olympic games that sees fever pitch excitement, impressive displays of athleticism, as well as personal and national journeys of hope, triumph and despair being beamed globally....
Elections 2016: The party that sneaked in from the backdoor
Ebrahim Moosa - Radio Islam | 09 August 2016 One of the most startling developments observing this year’s municipal elections surely has to be the meteoric rise in support at the polls for an otherwise obscure South African political player. As the agonising wait for...