Former leader of the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Ramadan Shallah, has died after a long battle with a chronic disease, the Gaza-based movement confirmed. The 62-year-old, who was in a medical coma after suffering multiple heart and kidney complications for about two years, died in a Damascus hospital on Saturday. "We mourn the passing of a great Palestinian leader who held the banner of Jihad for Palestine and Jerusalem since […]
Pro-Palestinian activists on Saturday called on the British government to apologise for the "disastrous" role of the Balfour declaration in the "biggest social injustice of our time" - decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Speakers at the Palestine conference at University College London said the centenary of the 1917 declaration was the right time to make amends. Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, a criminal barrister and external consultant for the Palestinian human […]
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.
