A 25-hectare smallholding in Daleside has become the focus of AWQAF SA where a borehole producing thousands of litres of potable water was drilled and set up with a pump and a storage tank. Farming is taking place on the site at the moment.
The Al-Tawheed Foundation was the happy recipient of nine laptops designed to help it in its vital work of running 19 centres based in vulnerable communities across the Gauteng province.
The laptops were handed over to its founder, Sheikh Abdel-Salaam Bassiouni, the founder and CEO of the Foundation and its COO, Mohsin Desai, by AWQAF SA CEO, Zeinoul Abedien Cajee. The ceremony took place at Al-Tawheed’s head office, the Bilal Centre, in Lenasia South.
Awqaf South Africa calls on you to participate in an opportunity to contribute to Shahana’s 50 to 50
campaign, which aims to benefit the Awqaf SA Fruit Tree Waqf.
AWQAF SA CEO, Zeinoul Abedien Cajee, has been appointed as one of three Deputy Secretary-Generals for the Waqf sector in the newly rebranded World Zakat & Waqf Forum. He joins Yasmina Francke, CEO of SANZAF, who has been serving as one of the Deputy Secretary-Generals in the Zakah sector.
Earliest Waqf Legacy in the World Is Deciphered: Two Villages in Palestine
Engraved in kufic script, the stele was deciphered by Prof. Lotfi Abdeljaouad, an Arabic epigraphy expert at the National Heritage Institute in Tunis, at the behest of Prof. Mehmet Tütüncü, the director of the Turkish and Arabic World Research Center in the Netherlands and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Turkology – who learned about its existence from Christie’s auction catalog.
