India’s Waqfs are under pressure. The question is what brought them to a position where it could be done — and whether our own registration, governance and funding would stand the same test. [...]
A fellowship in Amnesty’s Regional Human Rights Impact programme. The people who shape human rights work later are the ones in the pipeline now. [...]
How SAMNET got Palestinian flags into the 2010 World Cup by cutting the stars out of Jordanian ones — and why a child who sends a real email learns more than one who paints another poster. [...]
The brain develops into the mid-twenties, and alcohol does not behave there as it does in an adult. SAMNET calls for alcohol legislation to be treated as a national emergency. [...]
Two of the five non-fiction finalists at the 2024 SA Book Awards were Muslim women — Qaanitah Hunter and the late Fatima Sydow. [...]
Regular site audits and risk assessments — exits, escape plans, fire equipment, crowding, marshals, parking and first aid. A practical checklist for Musaajid, Madressah and events. [...]
SAMNET and Regent Business School ran a workshop for Jamiatul Ulama South Africa on using research and data in organisational decision-making — the first of a broader capacity-building programme. [...]
Who paid for the study, and who paid for the promotion, are separate questions from whose letterhead it carries — and only the letterhead shows up in a sponsored post. [...]
The American Service-Members’ Protection Act of 2002 authorises the use of force to free US and allied personnel held by the ICC — with Israel named among the covered allies. [...]
Bursaries for archaeology, archives, palaeontology, IKS, museum studies and the digitisation of heritage — the disciplines that decide whose history survives. [...]
Know the laws, use them, enforce them, change them. A KZN liquor licence applicant must list every place of worship within 500 metres — which is precisely the lever a community can use. [...]
CNN removed a panellist within hours — which should be the floor, not the exception. The harder question is whether we are building the journalists who earn those seats. [...]