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...
by Iqbal Jassat | May 13, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, Obituary
South Africa’s Muslim media has lost an incredibly powerful voice with the demise of Ebrahim Gangat. His death on the eve of 7th Ramadan 1440, corresponding to 13th May 2019, following a battle with cancer, is certain to leave a huge void in the field of...
by Mustafa B Mheta | May 7, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, MRN Views
It is not an exaggeration for one to say that the civilian population of our beautiful continent is sick and tired over the inaction by the continental body to deliver quality and good life to its people. People are tired of corrupt, inept, unpopular leadership that...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Apr 30, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, MRN Views
Black Muslims from all corners of South Africa converged in Fordsburg at the Palm Continental Hotel in Johannesburg from the 19th-21st of April 2019, to attend what was deemed “South African Black Muslims Conference” with a theme “Shaping Mzansi Muslim Discourse”. The...
by Iqbal Jassat | Apr 23, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, MRN Views
Though I’m not surprised by the harshness of Zev Krengel’s attack on Zane Dangor in regard to the downgrade of South Africa’s embassy in Tel Aviv, I note that his desperate attempt to do so is filled with frustration. Unfortunately for him and the...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Apr 12, 2019 | Africa, Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
The Arab spring started in Tunisia in late 2010, when a self-immolation of a street vendor in a provincial town of Sidi Bouzid sparked mass anti-government protests. Unable to control the crowds, the then President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee the...
