With no signs of the traditional Easter rain this weekend, campers heading to the annual Shaykh Yusuf Kramat Festival can rest assured that camping will be more favourable this year. The annual festival, held at the burial site of Shaykh Yusuf of Maccassar, kicked off on Good Friday and will end on Easter Monday. The celestial Cape Malay tradition is one of the beautiful reminders of the city’s Islamic and […]
The International Peace College South Africa (IPSA) launched the inaugural Shaykh Yusuf Scholarship Waqf Endowment fund at its annual banquet dinner. IPSA together with their strategic partner AwqafSA hosted the annual fundraising banquet, which took place on Tuesday at the Conference and Exhibition Centre at Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. This year with the help of corporate table hosts, hundreds of community members gathered for an evening of celebratory commendation of inaugural […]
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.
