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Title: Muslim community leaders hold meeting over drug problem in area, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Protection, Drug dealers, ,
Description: Fighting the drug barons - Muslim community leaders Imam Moejahiet Laatoe, Moulana Azeem Khatiep, Sheikh Mogammad Moerat and Imam Rashid Omar in the Tennyson Street Mosque, Salt River. Leaders have called for drug dealers in the suburb to be rooted out.
Identifier: islandora:15472

Title: Muslim mourners carry coffin to cemetery, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, Funeral rites and ceremonies, ,
Description: Sheikh Mourned - About 2 500 Muslim mourners yesterday attended the funeral of prominent Islamic theologian, Sheikh Abubaker Najaar, and scores of men carried his body to the Groote Schuur cemetery for burial from the Zinatul Islam Mosque in Muir Street, District Six, where he was the Imam.
Identifier: islandora:15461

Title: Man on his way to a nearby Shrine, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Sheik Ahmed of Kensington on his prayer visit to the Kramat where the remains of exile Sayit Abduraaman Mohra is buried.
Identifier: islandora:15509

Title: Muslim women protest, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, Gender, Demonstrations, ,
Description: Purdah protest - Muslim women in purdah outside Claremont Mosque yesterday against American woman theologian Dr Amina Wadud-Muhsin's address to the congregation last week.
Identifier: islandora:15497

Title: St. Peter's Church celebrates 100 years, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Religion, Church buildings, Centennial celebrations, etc., ,
Description: St. Peter's church, Mowbray which celebrated its centenary yesterday. The rector, the Rev. John Carter, can be seen standing at the church gates.
Identifier: islandora:15440

Title: Craftsman making a leather motorbike seat, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Artisans, ,
Description: Master craftsman: Faiek Rabin, above, a genius with leather, hard at work on a motorbike seat. His son, Fareed, holds the finished product.
Identifier: islandora:15450

Title: Muslim men praying, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: After the abortive march Muslim marchers pray in Tennyson Street because the mosque was crowded.
Identifier: islandora:15455

Title: Crowd listens to Egyptian qari recite the Koran, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Worship, ,
Description: Koranic Recital: Scores of city Muslims crowd into the Gatesville Mosque to hear visiting Egyptian qari, Muhammad Yunus Al-Ghalbam, recite the Koran at a qirat festival in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Identifier: islandora:15501

Title: Crowd gathers to say goodbye to departing pilgrims, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Thousands of Malays were at D.F. Malan Airport yesterday to say good-bye to 21 pilgrims who left for Mecca by air. The non-white section at the airport had to be extended to accommodate the crowd. / Saying goodbye to pilgrims - they will have to deal directly with Saudi-Arabian authorities.
Identifier: islandora:15510

Title: Woman wipes tears from her face with tissue, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, ,
Description: The pain of being left behind shows as a woman says goodbye to friends.
Identifier: islandora:15503

Title: Founder of a school which is closing down to the Group Areas Act, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam , Apartheid, Education, ,
Description: The Algairiyan Moslem school, in Pontac Street, District Six, is closing down because of the Group Areas Act. The school, which numbers many religious and community leaders among its 3 000 or so past students, was founded in Cape Town in 1928 and moved to Wellington between 1930 and 1936. Its retiring founder and teacher, Ghalifa Ebrahiem, 70, said yesterday: "The school is closing because the Moslem community has been dispersed and students can no longer afford to pay fares from the suburbs where they have been moved to the school. If it were not for the Group Areas Act, the school would have continued."
Identifier: islandora:15464

Title: Malay Arts and Crafts, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Wicker furniture, ,
Description: Furniture made by Muslims / Section of Malay Arts and Crafts: Van Riebeek festival. Exhibition at the Castle. 1952. Organised by H.M.A. Regal.
Identifier: islandora:15451

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