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SAMNET card: Register to Vote Before 4 August
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 29/07/202619/09/2026
  • Voter Education

Register to Vote Before the Voters’ Roll Closes on 4 August

The voters’ roll closes on or about 4 August 2026 for the November local elections. Registering takes five minutes on your phone and uses no data. [...]

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SAMNET card: Registering Our Over-16s as Voters
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 21/07/202619/09/2026
  • Education

Civics Workshop: Registering Our Over-16s as Voters

A free 45 to 90 minute workshop for Grade 11 and 12 learners and university students, ending with every participant registered on the IEC website. [...]

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SAMNET card: An Association of Masjid and Musallah Trustees
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 02/07/202619/09/2026
  • Advocacy

SAMNET Proposes an Association of Masjid and Musallah Trustees

A nonpartisan national network through which trustees can share what they know, and respond together when a community is threatened. [...]

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  • Mohamed Kharwa
  • 01/10/202510/11/2025
  • Education

Salaamedia Interview: Preserving and sharing Our Heritage – National Mosque Open Day: Building our Historical Records

Preserving and sharing Our Heritage – National Mosque Open Day: Building our Historical Records One of the gaps in many of our communities is not recording our history for future generations. Part of this process is preserving our “Past” and recording our “Present “, so it becomes our “History” for [...]

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SAMNET card: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Muslim Community
  • Mohamed Kharwa
  • 30/09/202519/09/2026
  • Education

CII Interview: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Muslim Community

SAMNET on Channel Islam International’s Political Arena of Opinions, on why the Muslim community needs to make decisions from data rather than assumption. [...]

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  • admin
  • 22/09/202510/11/2025
  • National Mosque Open Day

National Mosque Open Day 2025

NMOD 2025 Participating Mosques, Musjids, Musaajid and Musallahs [...]

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  • admin
  • 19/08/202518/09/2026
  • Education

SAMNET Bursaries — Frequently Asked Questions

Who qualifies for a SAMNET bursary, which fields of study are covered, and how to request an application form. The fund helps students in journalism, media, communications and political science who face real financial hardship — it is not a course, and it does not cover other fields. [...]

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SAMNET: Election Choices 2024: What the SAMNET Analysis Found
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 22/05/2024
  • Voter Education

Election Choices 2024: What the SAMNET Analysis Found

SAMNET does not endorse or exclude any party. Ahead of the 2024 elections it published a “maybe” and “maybe not” list weighing values, experience and strategic voting. [...]

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SAMNET: Dr Faisal Suliman: Another Reason to Register to Vote
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 17/11/2023
  • Advocacy

Dr Faisal Suliman: Another Reason to Register to Vote

SAMNET chairperson Dr Faisal Suliman, writing in Al-Qalam ahead of the 2024 elections: why what happens in Gaza is an argument for getting onto the voters’ roll here. [...]

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SAMNET: Census 2022: How Many Muslims Are There in South Africa?
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 11/10/2023
  • Advocacy

Census 2022: How Many Muslims Are There in South Africa?

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. [...]

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SAMNET: Banking While Muslim: Financial Islamophobia, Measured
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 07/07/2023
  • Advocacy

Banking While Muslim: Financial Islamophobia, Measured

Muslims are the faith group most likely to report problems with financial institutions — from closed accounts and denied transactions to investigations. The ISPU study, and the congressional letter it fed. [...]

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SAMNET: Unpacking Islamophobia: Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative
  • SAMNET Secretary
  • 05/06/2023
  • Advocacy

Unpacking Islamophobia: Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative

Canada has seen more mass killings motivated by Islamophobia than any other G7 country. Amira Elghawaby on the office created in response, and what led to it. [...]

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