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. [...]
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. [...]
SAMNET on the SAHRC ruling on non-gendered school uniforms, and why decisions of this kind are taken in rooms parents are entitled to be in — and too often are not. [...]
SGB elections run at public schools from 1 March to 30 April 2024. Most Muslim learners are in public schools, usually as a minority. How the vote works, how to vote strategically, and why a school with no engaged parents is far harder to work with when something goes wrong. [...]
Census 2022 counts roughly 930 000 Muslims in South Africa, about 1.6% of the population — the first national count of religion in more than two decades. [...]
SAMNET director Mohamed Kharwa recognised by the Dawn Education and Leadership Centre for the pilot Citizenship Journalism Bootcamp for Muslims, Durban, 27–28 May 2023. [...]