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,...

Sans reason A mindless mindlessness. The precipice so inviting... and she accepted. Willingly. She will not admit, claims she was pushed, But who else was there? A beautiful failing, She will admit. But hardly well thought of. To fall to fall to fall to fail, exquisite. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Inhibitions shed; dead skin. How brittle is her composure, How porcelain is her restraint. She melts; lead unto flame. No kings' me...

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