by Iqbal Jassat | Jun 20, 2022 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, Opinion, World News
South African Reverend Frank Chicane at the Palestine Solidarity Forum. (Photo: Meraj Chhaya, via Wikimedia Commons) By Iqbal Jassat Having read Pastor Tom Mofokeng’s scurrilous attempt (City Press, June 17) to discredit and undermine Reverend Frank Chikane, it...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Jun 20, 2022 | Africa, Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
The coming Pan African Parliament (PAP) elections are once again bringing to the fore the hidden divisions that exist within the continental body. The jostling for positions has started behind the scenes and once again money is exchanging hands in a corrupt way. The...
by Ahmed Jazbhay | Jun 8, 2022 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
In an unprecedented move, Muslim countries around the world have expressed outrage and condemnation at the Islamophobic comments against the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his beloved wife, Aisha (RA). Two spokespersons for India’s ruling party, the...
by Iqbal Jassat | Jun 3, 2022 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
Though the axing of the Jewish Report by the Press Council was a dramatic yet necessary consequence for its defiance and obstinate refusal to comply with rulings against it, the remedy for the aggrieved parties remains in limbo. The core of the complaint lodged by...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Jun 2, 2022 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
News that Al-Jazeera Media Network has taken the racist and apartheid Israeli government to the ICC in The Hague for the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is welcome news for all the peace and justice loving citizens of the world. We hope Al-Jazeera succeeds...
by Iqbal Jassat | May 30, 2022 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
In a remarkable testament to the protection of free speech in South Africa, especially in relation to Palestine and the settler colonial regime Israel which usually is marred by intimidatory allegations of antisemitism by pressure groups on behalf of the colonial...
