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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 23/02/2026
  • Advocacy

Tzaneen Mosque Attack — Indications of an Islamophobic Hate Crime

A congregant walking home from Masjid us Salaam was attacked by four teenagers. Most such incidents are never formally reported — and a pattern that is not counted is not policed as one. [...]

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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 05/12/2025
  • Advocacy

The Cultural Boycott Is Taking Hold — Eurovision, and Now UEFA

Three countries have withdrawn from Eurovision 2026 and three more are considering it. Broadcasters and sponsors pay for an audience — an audience leaving is the message that gets read. [...]

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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 26/11/2025
  • Advocacy

Why Taxing Gambling Is Not the Solution

Tax gives government an incentive to keep the industry alive and hands lobbyists a permanent argument. Legislate the word “gambling”, not “gaming” — and withdraw the support it depends on. [...]

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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 09/11/2025
  • Advocacy

How Civil Society in Durban Is Tackling the Online Gambling Crisis

More than a hundred organisations signed a declaration calling for a complete ban on online gambling, an advertising ban and a freeze on new licences. [...]

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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 20/10/2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Advocacy

Why Every Voter Counts

Four October 2025 by-elections decided by 454, 465, 325 — and two votes. Many wards now turn on fewer than 500 votes, about 150 households. [...]

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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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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 25/09/2025
  • Advocacy

The United Nations Young Professionals Programme

A recruitment route into the UN Secretariat. The composition of international institutions reflects who applied a decade earlier. [...]

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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 24/09/2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Education

Preserving and Sharing Our Heritage — Building Our Historical Records

Keep a visitors’ book. Preserve the marriage registers, the architectural drawings, the mimbar. Everything old was once new — the record worth having in fifty years is the one being made now. [...]

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  • 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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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 19/09/2025
  • Advocacy

Joining the Dots: Rwanda, Religious Regulation and the CRL

Regulation creates a monopoly within each faith, and a dependence that blurs the duty to speak truth to power. The CRL has signalled interest in the Rwandan model. [...]

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  • SAMNET INFO
  • 13/09/2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Advocacy

Restricting Religion Through Legislation — Quebec, and the Question for Us

Quebec has produced recommendations restricting religious expression. In South Africa the CRL’s Section 22 proposals point the same way — and a campaign that waits to see how it turns out is not a campaign. [...]

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