by Iqbal Jassat | Jun 20, 2019 | MRN articles, MRN Views, Obituary
The passing of Dr Shaukat Ali Thokan has been met with immense sadness throughout South Africa. His death, following a period of illness, will leave a huge void in the country’s Muslim community. A founder-member of the Muslim Youth Movement (MYM) which was...
by Iqbal Jassat | Jun 19, 2019 | MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
Is America preparing to go to war with Iran? This is the question dominating discussions around dinner tables as well as boardrooms. Confined not only to the Middle East, where heightened concerns about the fall-out for the volatile region’s future forms part of...
by Iqbal Jassat | Jun 10, 2019 | MRN Views, Obituary
Saddened as we are by the passing of one of South Africa’s literary giants, we are heartened by the everlasting legacy of Ahmed Essop’s gigantic scholarship inscribed in the numerous award winning books he authored. His brilliant works which not only...
by Iqbal Jassat | May 23, 2019 | MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
The annual Quds Day commemoration for 2019, which is held on the last Friday of Ramadan in many parts of the world, will be distinguished from previous years as new challenges confronting Palestinians come to the fore. The overwhelming squeeze applied by the apartheid...
by Iqbal Jassat | May 20, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
Will South Africa’s independence and the ANC’s unanimous resolution on the downgrade of its embassy in #Apartheid Israel be held hostage by the SA Jewish Board’s targeting of Min Lindiwe Sisulu as a “threat to SA Jewry”? The brutal attack...
