The Western Cape Department of Health has assured the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) that the unwritten policy to prioritise Muslim postmortems still stands. This reassurance was given at a special high level meeting held with senior MJC members, Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo and top health officials in the department in Cape Town on Monday. The MJC called an urgent meeting with the department after receiving calls from Muslim families in […]
The Western Cape Department of Health has confirmed that historically, the department has tried to prioritize postmortem examinations for deceased of the Islamic faith. But the department’s Marika Champion says it is no longer in a position to do priority postmortems, due to the increasing case load of the forensic pathology service. “We can only do postmortem cases as they present themselves," she told VOC News. She was responding to […]
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.
