LOCAL Renowned poet and anti-apartheid activist, Don Mattera, has been laid to rest at the Heroes Acre in Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg. The journalist, writer, and activist died on Monday at the age of 87. Mattera was buried in accordance with Islamic rites. Don Mattera used art to speak to the hearts and minds of the oppressed while standing up to the oppressors. His sister Gaylina Mattera, says that Don […]
The second sitting of the reopening of the anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol Inquest will enter into its second day on Tuesday in the High Court in Pretoria. Former cabinet minister in President Thabo Mbeki’s administration Essop Pahad is expected to testify when the hearing resumes for the second day. Pahad and Timol were close friends and also members of the South African Communist Party (SACP). The retired Wits academic and […]
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.
