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Pray away: Muslim women pray the first Taraweeh evening prayer on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan at the Nizamiye Mosque in Midrand, Johannesburg, but the author laments the lack of equitable spaces for women in many of the city’s mosques. Photo: Gulshan Khan/AFP
MOSQUE

Joburg’s mosques need to be more open

These are community spaces and should be available to all

  • Ozayr Patel
5 min read
Mosques, like other places of worship in South Africa, have been shut down to contain the outbreak of Covid-19.
CONSTITUTION

Some reflections on the recent access-to-masjid case

This pandemic must pose an opportunity for serious introspection by all actors involved in taking the case to court, including religious legal fraternities

  • Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel
7 min read