PIC inquiry: “The rot had been too deep”
Shocking revelations made at the PIC inquiry and it’s only just begun
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Author: journalist
Campus shutdowns and NSFAS woes mark start of the academic year
Registration blues : financial exclusion means bright futures are on the line
Google ‘university registration’ and you’ll immediately find photos of young people with backpacks and in classrooms, smiling as they hand over documents to official-looking adults, surrounded by green campuses in a seemingly far away land. These romanticised images of university and of the registration process for students is a far cry from what thousands of black students in South Africa…
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Imam Abdullah Haron (1924 – 1969)
A spiritual force to be reckoned with
As this year marks half a century of Imam Abdullah Haron’s murder at the hands of the erstwhile and brutal apartheid’s security branch, the light of his conscious spiritual socio-political leadership and his editorship at the Muslim News keeps shining.Imam Abdullah Haron, born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, in the southern suburb of the Western Cape, was the youngest in a family of five, and still an infant when Asa Martin, his mother died. Since his father Amarien, was not able to care for him, his sister…
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Rooibos Roots and the search for justice
Wupperthal rising from the ashes
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The Invocation of Krotoa
The arts and restorative justice
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