Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa in October 2000 as a limited liability company, Cii Holdings Proprietary Limited operates three high growth commercial businesses:
Cii Broadcasting (Pty) Limited – a satellite audio broadcasting station that broadcasts Islamic audio programs to Muslims across the continent of Africa, Middle-East and Europe. Cii Broadcasting has partnered with world class platforms
Cii Stores (Pty) Limited – a retail chain of two up-market stores in Cape Town and Johannesburg that sells Islamic clothing wear, consumables, accessories, Islamic books and audio recordings including the sales of satellite receivers. With aggregated demand by the listeners of Cii, we plan to open several new stores during our current financial year.
Cii Finance (Pty) Limited – is a joint venture initiative between Futuregrowth– part of the South African First Rand Group; Albaraka Bank Limited part of the Saudi based Dallah Al Baraka Group and Frater Asset Management provides Muslims with a Shariah compliant investment instruments. The fund aims to provide steady capital growth in excess of the JSE All Share index over the long term. The fund does not invest in shares that have an association with alcohol, gambling, non-Halaal foods and interest bearing instruments.
A recent association with DMC properties (Pty) Ltd has resulted in the introduction of blue chip properties which muslim investors can now participate in…
http://www.channelislam.com/corp_profile.htmlflipside.....
The Media
The most sustained and overt example of anti-Jewish propaganda on radio was the broadcasting of a series of ‘comparative religion’ programs on Channel Islam International in the June–July period. In the course of a series of interviews with local Muslim academic Rafiek Hassen, Jews were systematically depicted as a scheming and underhanded people, inveterate haters of all non-Jews and unscrupulous plotters against whom the world should be warned. Overt and distorted attacks on the Jewish religion were used as a basis for this denigration. Talk show host Shafaat Khan endorsed his guest’s statements, commenting on one occasion that Jews nursed “a bitter hatred for the goyims
in their hearts” and that through his program his listeners had been given “a deeper insight into the psyche of the Jew.” He also called on listeners to enlighten their colleagues and acquaintances about “the devious roles the Zionists play, not only in Muslim lives, but also in the lives of non-Muslims,” adding: “We Muslims are on to them and the world of Christendom still has to come to this realization.” Khan was taken off the air by the station following complaints from the SAJBD, and no recurrence of this type of broadcasting has been reported.
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/south_africa.htm
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4.3.1 Channel Islam International – The Voice for Africa<12>
Towards the end of the year 2000 Mr. Ashraf, a former electronics expert and Managing Director of the Lenasia based 'Islamic Sound & Vision' company, had investments in a variety of companies. These he apparently sold and invested much of his money into setting up Channel Islam International in Lenasia, a pre-dominantly Indian suburb of Johannesburg where a sizeable Muslim population reside. Mr. Ashraf and his management team succeeded in setting up the satellite station; he, as the sole investor, had to invest about R10million in the project to get it off the ground and to broadcast it to the different African and Middle Eastern states.
Even though the channel, which uses the satellite medium, might not be competing with smaller radio stations, the drawback for the listener to tune in to this channel is that the person has to invest in a special WorldSpace satellite radio which costs approximately $200.00. However, being a community based radio station, which has helped to take 'Islam' to the homes of families in Gaborone, Lusaka, Harare, Maputo and a host of other cities where the World Space satellite radio station is available and able to reach, it has attracted a great deal of interest from communities in these cities. In Gaborone, for example, the station – as part of its outreach programme - came out to the community towards the end of 2001 before the month of Ramadan, and was broadcasting the whole of the weekend from the Botswana Muslim Council mosque premises to other parts of the continent. This community drive was successful in that the community were able to get to know some of the main presenters and the persons behind the funding of the station. However, representaives of the managing team also came to know the extent of the community support in cities such as Gaborone.
According to Channel Islam International (CII), it has over a quarter million listerners in the region in more than 50 states; these states are covered by what is known as the East and South Beams respectively. This is indeed phenomenal and one expects the listenership to grow rapidly because of the nature of the broadcast. The channel broadcasts a wide range of programmes, from talk shows to qasidah slots, and has an interesting team of presenters most of whom had training in Islamic theology. The team is headed by Mufti Abdul-Kader Hoosein who is described as the 'amir ush-shura' and Mr. Ebrahim Gangat, the studio manager. The latter presents his 'sabah ul-khayr (good morning) slot between 7am and 9am, and the former is the expert on 'Q & A' pertaining to legal issues. Some of his opinions may be viewed on the website. The CII also made space for women presenters; amongst them are Safiyya Ebrahim with her 'Simple Recipes and Treats' and Najma Khota who presents her lively 'In Touch' talk show. The channel therefore sees itself attracting an audience ranging from the young adolescent to the mature adult. If the channel maintains its momentum, then it will successfully attract more listeners as they improve the quality of the programming and programmes. It will in the end be financially fruitful for the owners and for the listeners, it is assumed, religiously rewarding.
It was observed that whilst the channel adopts an open policy in discussing a variety of issues such as, for example, every Wednesdays 'Finance' between 19h00 to 20h00, immediately thereafter 'the news' from 20h00 to about 20h10, and between 20h15 till about 21h00 'Health' issues, it reflects a slightly conservative approach during its advertisement breaks. Firstly, no music is used in the advert(s), and secondly, no jingles are played between the advert and the programme that follows. The switch between the advert and the news, for instance, is done in a very unprofessional manner; the moment the advert ends the news is read without a distinct interruption and indication that a new programme is about to start. During the very short intervals between the various programmes, the programmers make use of the popular Middle Eastern and South Asian acappella or they make use of their frequently repeated radio motto: 'A guide to a better Islamic lifestyle'.
http://www.uga.edu/islam/radio_sa.html
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