There is an increased vigour to register more organ donors now that there are about 5 000 people in South Africa who are on waiting lists for life-saving organ transplants, writes SAALEHA BAMJEE ORGAN donation is being hampered by cultural and religious beliefs. Although no religion explicitly states that organ donation is forbidden, the complexity of the issue is cause for most of the concern. In a ruling issued by the Jamiatul Ulama of KwaZulu-Natal, a body of Islamic theologians,...