Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za 24 September 2024 2-minute read Dr Mobeen Shah, ex-president of the Kashmir...
Political (opinion) Articles
Asylum Crisis In The Netherlands
Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za 17 September 2024 3-minute read The newly elected nationalist government in...
Human Trafficking: The Monster We Are Facing
Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za 10 September 2024 2-minute read The Gauteng legislature is to launch a...
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,...
Was South Africa’s Hard Lockdown Worth it?
By Naadiya Adams - @Miss_Naadiya In retrospect President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to force a hard lockdown was the right choice, but what him and his command council did after that is the problem. Ramaphosa had at his service, the best in the country, the top...
Michele Flournoy might be breaking a glass ceiling as Pentagon chief, but even feminists aren’t buying
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Pentagon chief would be the first woman in the role. But a glimpse at her past suggests she’s not only a sociopathic hawk but an ideal vector for a Biden reversal of Trump’s Afghan pullout. As Trump finally began to implement his...
On a Highway through Hell in Afghanistan
By Fazelminallah Qazizai 03:10:2020 Taliban and government forces are face to face in Helmand with the resumption of peace talk-stalled hostilities the blink of an eye away HELMAND – In a contested region of Afghanistan, the dividing line between the Taliban and...
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