The former Dean of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, Reverend Michael Weeder says the late renowned struggle poet and writer James Matthews lifted the torch of freedom in the darkest of times. Matthews passed away in Cape Town at the age of 95. The poet and writer wrote for a variety of publications and was a fearless writer and poet during the apartheid era. Weeder says Matthews never walked away from his true […]
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 […]
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.
