When did Islam first reach South Africa? Who were South Africa's first Muslims? This flash file introduces the debated facts and figures, offering a glimpse of the experience of the Muslim minority in South Africa, their origins, their life under apartheid and the ideas that shaped their discourse in the post-apartheid era.
To understand
contemporary Islam in South Africa, one has to
first take a historical journey down the
centuries and across the world’s great oceans.
The growth and survival of Islam in South Africa
is a phenomenon possessing characteristics not
always common to the rest of the Muslim world.