The City of Cape Town has opened 600 new burial spaces for Muslims. The Muslim community has been lobbying for more burial spaces since 2006. However, the new spaces are only temporary relief as the ...

to increase burial capacity at the remaining 10 municipal cemeteries with a Muslim allotment. Cape Town also has private Muslim cemeteries. “Currently, city cemeteries accommodate approximately ...

The last burial occurred in 1896. In a statement, the Muslim Judicial Council said the City gave them the green light to reopen the cemetery for re-use. The historic Brodie Road Muslim Cemetery in ...

Cape Town - Despite the public outcry in January ... “Our human and constitutional rights to provide burial sites for our deceased, as well the right to practice our religion, and live in ...

Alhamdulillah the Cape Muslim community remains ... Effendi’s enduring commitment to educating Cape Town’s youth for 17 years until his death, and his burial in Tana Baru Cemetery, symbolised ...