Addiction among children and youth needs a strategy led by legislation on advertising, access and impact. No amount of economic contribution compares to the impact on a child’s body and mind. [...]
SAMNET’s third national and provincial election survey ran from 21 to 28 April 2024, anonymously, ahead of the May elections. [...]
The UK Foreign Office put terrorism at the top of its travel advisory for South Africa. Any honest risk assessment would put ordinary crime first. SAMNET on what the ranking might really be about. [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and full unfettered humanitarian access — and said those delivering aid must never be attacked. [...]
A Muslim pupil lost a High Court challenge to Michaela Community School’s prayer ritual ban. SAMNET on assimilation versus integration, and on when a rule itself is the problem. [...]
Home Affairs opened on Saturdays from April to 25 May 2024 for ID applications, collections and corrections, with a new appointment booking system. An ID is the gateway to services — and to voting. [...]
The French Football Federation was reported to prohibit Muslim players from fasting at the national team training camp during Ramadan, in the name of laïcité. [...]
Relief alone is not the answer. For every 100 given to a crisis, give 1% to the work that prevents the next one — communication, lobbying, research, and training the specialists it takes decades to produce. [...]
India, the United Kingdom and the United States — three incidents from a single day’s Bridge Initiative round-up, and the smear campaign against what would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate judge. [...]
Qatar was scrutinised over workers and desert heat before the World Cup. Three years later, Florida’s Senate banned cities from requiring water breaks and shade for outdoor workers. The standard should be universal. [...]
SAMNET extends its sympathies after three monks were killed and a fourth seriously injured in an attack in Johannesburg, and calls on government to take steps to protect religious institutions. [...]
Over 60% of processed drinking water in eThekwini is lost to failing infrastructure. SAMNET calls on citizens, local government, business and academia to act before the next crisis rather than after it. [...]