Meet the Women Championing South Africa’s Black Muslim Pride
Stefanie Jason Dec. 04, 2018 Photo: Stefanie Jason There’s a new movement of Black Muslims in South Africa asserting their Africanness within the context of their religion. “I have […]
South Africa: Women in polygamous marriages have the right, Sis Thuli, to freedom of choice
BY PALESA LEBITSE – 31 July 2018 Musa Mseleku and his wives have a reality show on polygamy lifestyle which got South Africa talking as the majority grapple with […]
South Africa’s ‘paedophile’ minister and a mysterious death
Source: BBC News By Farouk Chothia Image copyright@NBPUBLISHERSImage captionMark Minnie was reportedly afraid that he might be killed South Africa has been gripped by the mysterious death of former police […]
David Goldblatt, who documented apartheid South Africa, dies
Source: Al Jazeera News Renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, whose work documented the abuses and divisions of apartheid, has died aged 87. “He passed away peacefully in the early […]
South African Jews report ‘flurry of viciously anti-Semitic’ incidents
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — Representatives of South Africa’s Jewish community said they are seeing an uptick in anti-Semitic rhetoric in real life and on social media. “Over the […]
South African police kill man after fatal mosque attack
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man fatally stabbed two people on Thursday and wounded several others at a mosque near Cape Town before police shot […]
South African police kill man after fatal mosque attack
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Yesterday JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man fatally stabbed two people on Thursday and wounded several others at a mosque near Cape Town before police […]
South Africa probes ‘extremism’ element in mosque attack
Source: Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s elite police unit said Friday it was investigating an “element of extremism” in a mosque attack in which one person died after […]
New South African church celebrates drinking alcohol
Source: Associated Press By ANDREW MELDRUM ORANGE FARM, South Africa (AP) — Dressed in a red robe and a gold-trimmed bishop’s miter, the clergyman pours whiskey into his cupped hand […]
What It’s Like To Live Through Cape Town’s Massive Water Crisis
Source: Time By ARYN BAKER Photographs by MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY and JOHNNY MILLER for TIME I knew we were in trouble when I found myself Googling dry composting toilets. That was on Feb. 1, just after […]
Video: Could farming rhinos save them from extinction?
Source: BBC News Rhino horn is worth more than gold or heroin by weight, so poachers often kill the animals and cut off their horns. It’s illegal to sell the […]
Why South Africa is laying a welcome mat for Muslim visitors
Source: CNN Cape Town, South Africa (CNN) – With more than one million visitors in 2016, Cape Town already ranks highly among the most popular destinations in Africa. But South Africa’s legislative capital […]
A global snapshot of same-sex marriage
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND DREW DESILVER With the Australian Parliament’s recent passage of legislation legalizing gay marriage, 26 countries now permit gays and lesbians to wed. And if a recent high […]
Video: A closer look at ‘3.67m-year-old’ human skeleton
Source: BBC News It took 20 years to excavate, clean and put together Little Foot, whose skeleton was found in caves north of Johannesburg. Its exact age is debated, but […]
Ghana: Ahmadiyya Muslim Maulvi Muhammed Bin-Salih stresses for stronger Pan-African movement to unify & uplift Africans
Source: http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/politics/stronger-pan-african-movement-vital-for-african-unity.html | SEBASTIAN SYME The Ameer and Missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana, Maulvi Muhammed Bin-Salih, has stressed the need for a stronger Pan-African movement to unify and uplift the people of African descent in the diaspora to keep stronger ties with members in the rest of the […]
South African child ‘virtually cured’ of HIV
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News, Paris Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe child caught the infection from its mother around the time of birth A […]
Gambia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat donates food, clothing, shoes & praying mats to disaster victims in Bureng
Source: https://observergm.com/ahmadiyya-donates-to-disaster-victims-in-bureng/ The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in The Gambia recently donated 50 bags of rice, clothing, shoes and praying mats to disaster victims at Bureng village, in the Lower River Region. The package also includes a day’s free medical treatment from the doctors of the Ahmadiyya hospitals in Tallinding and Farafenni. […]
Ghana: Deputy Minister of Education & MP for Cape Coast Mrs Ayisi commends Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission for efforts in promoting education in the country
Source: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/education/parents-urged-to-train-children-to-be-time-conscious-119358 | By Afedzi Abdullah/Isaac Arkoh, GNA Cape Coast, July 8, GNA – Dr David Essaw, a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development Studies of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has admonished parents to inculcate effective time management and consciousness in their children. Quality time management, he noted was […]
Nigeria: “Real enemy of Nigeria is injustice, corruption, fraud — Leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Dr Mashud Fashola
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/real-enemy-nigeria-injustice-corruption-not-tribe-ahmadiyya/ By Wahab Abdulah If you think ethnic or tribal differences is the cog in the wheel of Nigeria as a nation, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria has a different view of this. In its Eid-el-Fitr message to Muslims in Nigeria made available to Vanguard, the leader of the Jama’at, […]
Ghana: Akyem Achiase Chief Lauds the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: http://www.mkaghana.org/akyem-achiase-chief-lauds-the-ahmadiyya-muslim-community/ | Story by Malek Appiah Affum, Qaid Ilaqa, Eastern Region The Chief of Akyem Achiase Dasebre Gyenin Kantan II has described the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as peace loving and disciplined Muslims who do not subscribe to violence. Dasebre Gyenin Kantan II who is also the acting Nifahene of the Akyem […]
