{"id":25216,"date":"2019-05-30T06:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/30\/african-dawn-episode-18-muslims-enter-the-transvaal\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T06:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:23:45","slug":"african-dawn-episode-18-muslims-enter-the-transvaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/african-dawn-episode-18-muslims-enter-the-transvaal\/","title":{"rendered":"African Dawn Episode 18 &#8211; Muslims enter the Transvaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019-05-30<\/p>\n<div>In pursuit of more lucrative business opportunities, Muslims began settling deeper inland in South Africa and with them slowly came Masaajid and institutions. The journeys of some of these early trailblazers to the then Transvaal is nothing short of epic, and as Zuleikha Mayat says,\u00a0sometimes more thrilling than any fiction. In this episode, we recount a typical journey of an economic migrant of this era and also highlight the first Masaajid to have graced the Transvaal.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/628803498&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"African Dawn Episode 18 - Muslims enter the Transvaal\" href=\"https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/628803498\/download?client_id=LBCcHmRB8XSStWL6wKH2HPACspQlXg2P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019-05-30 In pursuit of more lucrative business opportunities, Muslims began settling deeper inland in South Africa and with them slowly came Masaajid and institutions. The journeys of some of these early trailblazers to the then Transvaal is nothing short of epic, and as Zuleikha Mayat says,\u00a0sometimes more thrilling than any fiction. In this episode, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6yI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 06:00:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}