Naseerah Nanabhai 27-09-2019   Radio Islam recently conducted a panel discussion on the topic "Treatment of Domestic Workers and Employees." The two guests were Moulana Mohammed Vanker and Moulana Waseem Laher. Moulana Laher mentioned some examples of ill-treating domestic workers. He explained that there are times when people don’t understand what they are doing wrong. An example is how we serve them food, the manner in which we pay them, how we...

By Naseera Nanabhai 09/09/2019 Commonly, people who make bad food choices believe that they have only themselves to blame. However, the decision-making processes that lead to poor dietary choices are actually multifaceted. The reasoning for dietary decisions include the impacts of culture, tradition, nutritional knowledge and importance of health. But most significant of all is the impact of economic factors. A survey by the World Bank revealed that...

  Faizel Patel, Radio Islam  - 07-09-2019   Esteemed Islamic scholar Mufti Ismail Menk says because people have actually forgotten where they have come from, they end up perpetrating many sins and crime without realizing it.  Mufti Menk was rendering the Jumu’ah lecture at the Houghton Masjid in Johannesburg on Friday.  The honourable scholars lecture comes in the wake of sporadic looting, violence and xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals and even South...

    By Annisa Essack 06/09/2019 Pain, fear and anger were what I saw when I looked into the eyes of mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces and friends. Fear of the very ones who are responsible for the protection of women – our men. Thursday evening I listened to the words of the President as he addressed the nation through a radio and television broadcast and then a personal address to the thousands who marched to Parliament to express their anger on...

  By Mumtaz Saley 05/09/2019 The U.K Prime Minister has rejected an MP’s demand that he apologises to Muslim women in a burqa and honour the pledge he made to have an internal investigation in his party in connection with racist remarks against Muslims. Member of Parliament Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi was applauded in the house of commons yesterday for demanding an apology from Johnson over an article he written for the Daily Telegraph.  Boris Johnson,...