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“An extraordinary wave of support”: Muslim leaders and government officials denounce Iran’s .
Baha i National CenterFebruary 18, 2021 GMT
Washington, D.C., Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Baha’is in the farming village of Ivel in Iran. The ruling to allow Iranian authorities to confiscate the properties, clearly motivated by religious prejudice, was recently upheld in an appeals court and has left dozens of families internally displaced and economically impoverished.
A parent and a member of the Attwell Madala Senior Secondary School’s governing body, Andreus Ndoyisile Fudumele, said the classroom shortage was severe for four overcrowded schools in the Mthatha area.
Parents at Attwell Madala, Dudumayo Senior Secondary School, Mnceba Senior Secondary School and Enduku Junior Secondary took the Eastern Cape Department of Education to court in 2018. In November that year, the late head of the department, Themba Kojana, who died in January 2021, said he agreed with the parents that the schools were severely overcrowded and that urgent intervention was required.
The next year, in a violent protest triggered by the overcrowded classrooms at the school, nine prefab classes were burnt down by angry learners and residents.
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Civil society organisations say it will be a dark moment for democracy if the government opposes this week s judgment to dissolve the Makana Council. Illegal dumping back in the spotlight
More than 100 loads of dumped waste were removed from Aiken Street during three weeks in 2019 and 15 loads were removed from outside JD Dlepu stadium in Joza from 29-31 October. From October through December of that year, skips and containers across the town were emptied 71 times.
This information is contained in the Council’s Social Development portfolio minutes of 28 January 2020. It forms part of Makana Municipality’s response to an October 2020 court application.
Temporary relief for child support grants
The Children’s Institute (CI) and Legal Resources Centre (LRC) have secured a temporary victory in the fight to protect children without birth certificates from repeatably losing their child support grants (CSGs).
On Monday, 25 January 2021, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) agreed to reinstate the CSGs for thousands of these children. This follows SASSA’s termination of CSGs at the end of December 2020, plunging children and their families into destitution in the middle of the second wave of the Covid pandemic.
According to SASSA, there were about 16 000 children without birth certificates receiving the CSG in October 2020, and when the grants were terminated at the end of December 2020, the CI and LRC stepped in to ensure that they were reinstated. On 23 January, SASSA agreed to reinstate the grants in the February pay run, with backpay for January, and to keep them in payment for the duration of the state of di
But the military did not amend its dress policy, prompting Maj Isaacs to mount a challenge in South Africa s equality court over regulations restricting religious wear.
The South African Defence Force (SANDF) eventually agreed to amend its policy this week and allow all Muslim women to cover their heads while on duty. The SANDF dress regulation was updated to allow the wearing of headscarves by Muslim (women) according to stipulations in the dress regulations, spokesman Mafi Mgobozi told AFP on Thursday.
Speaking to the Cape Times, Maj Isaacs described the ruling as not just a personal victory, but a victory for all people who were silently victimised because of their religion.