Ray Mwareya

Mwareya

Ray Mwareya is a freelance food and technology and immigration reporter whose work appears in Radio Netherlands, The Guardian, Groundup South Africa, Financial Times and others. He is a receiver of the UN Global Migration Fair Reporting award.

Why South Africa needs to recognise Muslim Sharia marriages

Despite South Africa's constitutional progress post-Apartheid, regressive forces relating to Sharia law remain. With the South African Muslim community feeling increasingly marginalised by the judicial system, their hopes for Sharia persist.

17 September, 2021

Canada's Quebec City gets its first Muslim cemetery

Quebec City, the capital of Canada's only French-speaking province where the hijab has been banned, has finally got the approval for its own Muslim cemetery.

31 January, 2020

Canada's 'Islamophobic' Quebec City gets its first Muslim cemetery

Quebec City, the capital of Canada's only French-speaking province where the hijab has been banned, has finally got the approval for its own Muslim cemetery.

31 January, 2020

Syrian refugees find food solace far in South Africa

Feature: A Syrian refugee couple who left Damascus and moved to Benoni hope to keep flavours of their country alive by introducing local South Africans to a Middle East cuisine.

11 April, 2019