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Zubeida Jaffer

Zubeida Jaffer is an award-winning journalist, activist and author of three books Our Generation; Love in the Time of Treason; and Beauty of the Heart (The Life and Times of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke) available at select bookstores in all major centres as well as online at www.zubeidajaffer.co.za

Becoming Charlotte: A reflection on SA’s first native, female university graduate

An imaginative reflection on South Africa in the 1800s sketched around the life of the country’s first native female university graduate

Palestinians receive food at a UN-run school in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas.(Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Open letter to the president of Columbia University, New York

Nelson Mandela once said that the Palestine issue is the greatest moral question of our time …

Anger and sorrow: Sindiwe Magona writes poignantly about what miners, like her own father, endured. Photo: Graeme Williams/Gallo Images

Writer’s life offers gold to grow rich on

A reflection on the inspiration of Sindiwe Magona to go into an essay collection as she turns 80

17 May 2021: Desmond Tutu at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital vaccination site in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Brenton Geach)

Resting in Tutu’s shade

The archbishop was a ‘strong tree’ who made life’s journey more bearable, writes Zubeida Jaffer.

A priest leads a funeral procession for four United Democratic Front activists from Queenstown who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police. Those slain included Matthew Goniwe and Sparrow Mkonto. One mourner carries a small ceremonial spear within his black power salute, symbolic of Umkonto Wa Sizwe, which means “spear of the nation”. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

Let us not allow FW De Klerk’s death to tear us apart

His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice

Many will know that Charlotte Maxeke is the name of a Heroine-class submarine. And a heroine she was

Charlotte Maxeke: A woman of firsts

In 1902 she fought for emancipation, including that of women, and was the first black South African to graduate with a BSc

While the authors say that sharia does not necessarily represent the core of Islamic identity — which is very diverse — today’s Muslims have to study the timeless ethical principles at its base. (Reuters)

BOOK REVIEW: Understanding Sharia Islamic law in a globalised world

This book is a must read for those seeking to understand an important worldview that no longer remains hidden in the sands of the desert

Occupy Wall Street protesters stand outside a barricade at Zuccotti Park in New York on September 17 2013.

​We must fuss about Davos – to craft a fair economic order

The world’s business leaders gather to shape a financial system that enriches them, causing financial crises and increasing the inequality gap.

Many will know that Charlotte Maxeke is the name of a Heroine-class submarine. And a heroine she was

Heralded heroine: Why is Charlotte Maxeke’s life such a blurry memory for SA?

Why a book on Charlotte Maxeke? Zubeida Jaffer explains how this extraordinary woman should be remembered in South Africa today.

Too many cooks …

Birth, death, love and taxes are said to be the only constants in life, but one more thing could be added: a Robert Mugabe Cabinet. One would like to think that Stan Made — a man…

Not a saint but a very human human being

Dullah Omar was a Muslim man of Asian ancestry. He was South African. An African. A man of the world. But most of all, in his own words, a ”human being”. A person equal to all…