A consumer ordered soft drinks and found a 4% alcohol mixer added as a “freebie”, not listed on the invoice. SAMNET has asked the authorities to investigate. [...]
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R2.6 million accepted in six days, and no law under which the operator can be held to account. Scale the same proportion down to a household with R50 000 and the picture is identical. [...]
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. [...]
Three countries have withdrawn from Eurovision 2026 and three more are considering it.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. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
SAMNET on Channel Islam International’s Political Arena of Opinions, on why the Muslim community needs to make decisions from data rather than assumption. [...]
A recruitment route into the UN Secretariat. The composition of international institutions reflects who applied a decade earlier. [...]
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. [...]
NMOD 2025 Participating Mosques, Musjids, Musaajid and Musallahs [...]