Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za 2-minute read 21 August 2024 Despite the fact that there are ‘bigger...
Political (opinion) Articles
My Vote Counts Back in Court over Electoral Matters
Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za Researcher at lobby group My Vote Counts, Joel Bregman, spoke to Radio Islam...
Understanding the Bangladeshi Riots and Their Causes
Mumtaz Moosa | mumtazs@icloud.com 7 August 2024 | 10:30 CAT 2 minute read For weeks, Bangladesh has been rocked by...
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[LISTEN] India: Ten Months of Ongoing Farmers Protests
Umm Muhammed Umar The farmers protest in India, now in its 10th month, has been putting pressure on the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nivedita Khandekar, associate editor at IANS, India's largest private news agency, spoke to Radio Islam about the laws...
When liberators face prosecutions
By Staff Writer 17:09:2021 The trial of Salih Mustafa, a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander and Kosovan politician, commenced on Wednesday, with Mostafa criticising the court's motivations. The trial, scheduled to sit between September and October, is taking place...
Is another civil war looming for Afghanistan?
By Annisa Essack 22:08:2021 The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan lasted a decade from 1979 until 1989. The Mujahideen, or resistance fighters, was supported the United States in their fight against Soviet forces. The years after the Soviet pull-out, under the rule of...
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation: Former President Jacob Zuma’s Sentence sets a Stern Precedent
He has become known as the Teflon man escaping a guilty verdict in a rape case, managing now for years to avoid standing trial, and corruption charges, that is until yesterday, when the Constitutional Court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of...
August 5th Significant in ‘Red for Kashmir’ Campaign
5th August 2021 is a significant day in the ‘Red for Kashmir’ campaign. Recently, the world witnessed something similar but in a different context: the very successful Black for Rohingya campaign. Based in the United Kingdom, Claire Bidwell of the ‘Red for Kashmir’...
Palestine: Less talk and more action required from the World
BY ANNISA ESSACK 11:05:2021 Over the past few days on social media live streams, the world has watched in horror the forced expulsion of Palestinian families from the Jerusalem neighbourhood Sheikh Jarrah. The Al-Ghawi family home was forcefully taken over by Israeli...
Biden to end the “forever war”
By Annisa Essack 14:04:2021 September 26th, 2001, saw the arrival of the first American troops in Afghanistan when a CIA team dropped into the Panjshir Valley in the country's north. A decade later, at the peak of the war, the US had more than 100 000 troops battling...
Only Russian Software for Devices in the Region
Naseerah Nanabhai 07-04-2021 Russia now requires that all devices in the country utilise Russian software only. This includes smartphones, computers and smart TV’s all of which must be pre-installed with Russian software before they can be sold and used in the region....
Impeachment, acquittal but is it over for Trump
By Annisa Essack Saturday, the Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, voting that Trump was not guilty of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol. The final vote was short of the 67 guilty votes needed to convict,...
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