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By Vusuthando Percyvil Dube On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) policy into law. The BELA Bill, as it was originally named, amends the South African Schools Act of 1996. These reforms include making Grade...
By Ragheema Mclean The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has voiced its support for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to delay the implementation of two contentious clauses in the newly enacted Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act. Signed into law on...
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen A challenge to the regulations governing the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant will be heard in the Pretoria High Court on 29 and 30 October. In 2023, #PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)...
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is not concerned about Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube’s non-attendance at the signing of the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill into law, on Friday. He was speaking during a conversation with some journalists and editors...
By Vusuthando Percyvil Dube Malusi Booi, the former member of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee for Human Settlements, was arrested on Monday at his home in the Eastern Cape, as part of a significant investigation into fraud, money laundering, and racketeering...
By Rachel Mohamed In the latest edition of Hong Kong in a Hurry, VOC’s PM Drive show host and Kung Fu Master Junaid Chafeker (M.J. Li) offered the public a glimpse into Hong Kong culture, particularly within the Muslim community....
Dozens of illegal Israeli settlers escorted by security forces on Saturday evening stormed the Old City of Hebron in the southern West Bank, forcing Palestinians to head back home, Anadolu news agency reported. “Dozens of settlers, accompanied by dozens of Israeli soldiers,...
Egyptian and international human rights organisations have expressed their grave concerns for the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with execution in Saudi Arabia on drug-related charges, including 33 Egyptians in Tabuk Prison. There has been a sharp rise in...
By Rachel Mohamed In the latest edition of Hong Kong in a Hurry, VOC’s PM Drive show host and Kung Fu Master Junaid Chafeker (M.J. Li) offered the public a glimpse into Hong Kong culture, particularly within the Muslim community....
By Kouthar Sambo The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, expressed condemnation towards the Israeli occupation army after executing an airstrike on Al-Jaouni, a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, that shelters thousands of displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee...
By Kouthar Sambo The United States has formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war in Ukraine and announced fresh sanctions on Tehran. The accusations come while the US forms part of Israel’s...
By Kouthar Sambo Recent media reports state that South Africa will be filing its memorial to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in October 2024. This comes as Israel continues to show disregard for international law and expands its ongoing...
By Ragheema Mclean In preparation for the highly anticipated clash between South Africa’s Springboks and New Zealand’s All Blacks on Saturday, 7 September 2024, the City of Cape Town has announced an expanded free park and ride service for match...
By Ragheema Mclean The game of pool, long regarded as a male-dominated sport, is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation. Across the globe, a growing number of women are breaking through barriers, demonstrating exceptional skill, and gaining recognition on the...
Rugby world champions, the Springboks, have finally broken their winning drought against Australia in Brisbane. And they did so in spectacular fashion. In their first Rugby Championship clash this season, the South Africans demolished the Wallabies 33-7 in the Queensland...
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen On Saturday, 29 June 2024, cricket fans around the globe will witness the T20 World Cup final clash between South Africa and India at Barbados’ Kensington Oval. This historic match marks South Africa’s debut in Bridgetown, with...
Hashim Amla’s retirement from cricket has finally ended one of the most glorious careers in cricketing history. The ‘Mighty Hash”, or the ‘Silent Assassin’ (so named by the great West Indian fast bowler, Michael Holding), has been an enigma ever...
Morocco qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals after beating Spain 3-0 on penalties on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Neither team was able to break the deadlock for the first 45 minutes at Doha’s Education City Stadium. Despite...
In October 1973, newly elected Delaware Senator Joe Biden visited Israel on his first official overseas trip and met Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The 30-year-old was visibly moved as Meir explained what she said was Israel’s militarily dangerous situation...
Alittle magazine on the fringes of the French media mainstream continues to polarise public debate not just in France, but across the Muslim world. Their pitiable cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have provided fodder to populists on both sides of...
By Abdullah al Majali We have lived to see Arabs enter Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli protection. It is shameful. Is there any real difference between an Arab delegation visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli protection and hordes of extremist Israeli settlers...
This is an obituary for Islamic calligrapher Dr Sulayman Nordien, who passed away on the 5 September 2020. My first personal encounter with Dr Nordien was in my early twenties when my father set up a meeting with him to...
Our community is beset with a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart of our communal will. This crisis is evident in the erosion of what could be termed as eradication of the social...
I think it is time to take the Moulana Dawood Sampson debate to a different level. We have all had our outrage, our evaluations of the impact of his words, and the extent of rebuke by his peers among the...
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
