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Monday, 26 February 2018 11:21 (E-mail Print} President Cyril Ramaphosa may have reduced foreign affairs to five sentences in his State of the Nation Address (SONA), but make no mistake, that is not an indication of the level of priority he attaches to international relations. It is through South Africa’s foreign relations that he will…

Monday, 26 February 2018 11:18 (E-mail Print) In the great journey of any earthly life there are only two fixed points, the origin and the destination. In moments of great tragedy or loss these are the two fixed points we invoke to give comfort and meaning. We invoke it with finality – God has claimed…

Muslims do not have a monopoly on either fundamentalism or extremism. 13 Mar 2015 08:11 GMT The beginning of March 2015 saw again the convergence of forces that employ fundamentalist religious impulses to win support for their causes. Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, in the midst of an Israeli election, came to Washington to…

22 Nov 2015 10:24 GMT | ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ebrahim Rasool Ebrahim Rasool is the former South African Ambassador in Washington, DC, and founder of the World for All Foundation. I observed the two terrible atrocities committed by the extremist movement, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while in London.…

Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:20 SPEECH BY THE AMBASSADOR OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE USA, EBRAHIM RASOOL, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS WELCOME TO WASHINGTON DC (THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTRE, THURSDAY OCTOBER 7, 2010) Members of Congress Members of the Diplomatic Corps Members of the Business Community both from South Africa and the USA…

Tuesday, 09 November 2010 16:33BY: SHAFIQ MORTON In a world filled with acronyms and post-modernist quests for self-identity, we have to ask ourselves: what exactly is Dar ul-Shahadah? Shafiq morton_erDar ul-Shahadah – the safe abode of Islamic witness – is a term coined by contemporary thinkers such as Professor Tariq Ramadan and Ebrahim Rasool. Ramadan,…

Monday, 11 October 2010 00:00E-mail PrintMURRAY WILLIAMS Staff Writer A HERD of 30 beautiful ornamental zebras galloped into Cape Town today to preach reconciliation, tolerance and peace ahead of the World Cup.The creatures arrived in town for a project by former Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool and his new World for All Foundation, and are…

Thursday, 16 September 2010 View article from Claremont Clarion Newsletter Issue 23 September/October 2010

Wednesday, 09 June 2010 18:32 (E-mail Print) STATEMENT BY EBRAHIM RASOOL, FOUNDER OF THE WORLD FOR ALL FOUNDATION ON THE THREATS ISSUED BY AL QAEDA- MAGHREB The World for All Foundation was started by former Western Cape Premier, Ebrahim Rasool, to continue a discourse he started while Premier under the rubric: ‘A Home for All”.…