By Lee-Yandra Paulsen The City of Cape Town has announced an increase in burial tariffs for graves in its cemeteries, effective from next month. Speaking to VOC Breakfast on Tuesday, the City of Cape Town’s Head of Cemetery Management, Susan Brice, detailed the upcoming changes. "All tariffs in the City adjust on the first of July at the beginning of our financial year," Brice explained. "We have different types of […]
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen The City of Cape Town (COCT) is facing a pressing issue as burial space diminishes in the Mother City, prompting officials to explore new options. Mayoral Committee Member for Community Service and Health, Patricia van der Ross, shed light on this matter during Ramadan AM on Wednesday. "With approximately 40 cemeteries in Cape Town, the majority are facing critical shortages in burial space. Some cemeteries, such as […]
At least 20 graves belonging to Muslims and Orthodox Christians were vandalised in a cemetery in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, local media reported Monday, says Anadolu Agency. Many tombstones were also scrawled with red paint by unidentified people at Ostra Cemetery, reported Swedish public broadcaster SVT, citing police spokesperson Nils Norling. The Swedish SvD newspaper reported that around 20 graves were damaged and Muslims who wanted to pray for their […]
Iraqi authorities said Sunday the remains of 123 people killed by Islamic State (IS) group militants had been removed from a mass grave in the Nineveh governorate in order to start the process of identifying them. In one of its worst crimes in Iraq, IS carried out a massacre at Badush prison in June 2014 after it captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive that year. IS militants […]
The Iraqi government is seeking to open a "Al-Khasfa" tomb in the country's northern governorate of Nineveh, where some 2,000 bodies of civilians killed by Daesh are buried, local media reported yesterday. Saad Al-Abdali, a member of the Iraqi Council of Ministers' board, told Assabah that the opening of the tomb required "an international effort", adding that the hole was "the largest and bloodiest". "The corpses were thrown vertically and […]
The fight to preserve Bo-Kaap’s heritage now faces another obstacle – with the potential auctioning of two pockets of land at the historic Tana Baru cemetery. As Bo-Kaap residents wage an ongoing battle against gentrification and the burden of high municipal tariffs, it now faced with the reality that two erven of the sacred land could be auctioned at the end of June . According to Tana Baru Trust, Claremart will […]
The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognized his friends only by the colors of their shorts. Kadir and 14 others, all Rohingya Muslims in the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, had been choosing players for the soccer-like game of chinlone when the gunfire began. They scattered from what sounded like hard rain […]
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.
