By Kouthar Sambo The Western Cape Government reported that the reconstruction of road infrastructure is still underway after the recent floods. This comes after the MEC for Infrastructure, Tertuis Simmers, visited McGregor in the Langeberg Municipality yesterday. The town was cut off after a bridge was washed off by the[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Gift of the Givers has commended the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) for its readiness to intervene in national or international emergencies. Gift of the Givers’ Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman paid a visit to the university’s Bellville Campus this week to meet with the chosen individuals to[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Gift of the Givers is on the ground, assessing the situation and providing the necessary humanitarian aid to affected residents of the Ethembeni informal settlement in Dunoon. Gift of the Givers’ Ali Sablay said they received frantic calls from community leaders, informing their team of a fire[…]
By Aneeqa du Plessis At least two people have been hospitalised with minor injuries after a tornado ripped through parts of Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on Tuesday. The pair were caught inside a container that overturned during the tornado. According to reports, several homes have been damaged. Heavy rains have[…]
Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has announced the delivery of thousands of litres of water and hydration packs to Free State communities affected by cholera, as it confirmed the death of three family members in the province from the disease. Cholera has claimed 26 lives so far, with scores[…]
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen Following recent downpours on the Cape Flats, Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers offered relief assistance to the flood stricken Gxagxa informal settlement in Gugulethu on Monday. In an interview on Tuesday Gift of the Giver spokesperson Ali Sably, told VOC Breakfast about the relief efforts taking[…]
By Kouthar Sambo The Gift of the Givers have stepped in to assist South African emergency paramedic Gerco van Deventer after the family of the 47 year old filed a new appeal for his freedom on the 25th of March 2023. Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, head of the Gift of[…]
The family of a South African who has been held captive by jihadists in Mali for more than five years filed a new appeal for his freedom yesterday. On November 3, 2017, the emergency paramedic Gerco van Deventer, age 47, was abducted in Libya. While the three other people taken[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Southeast Turkey has experienced a new earthquake, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS) and Turkey’s AFAP emergency organization. The quake, according to Turkish officials, had a magnitude of 7.6. The village of Ekinozu in the Kahramanmaras, where the 7.8 earthquake struck hours earlier, is four[…]
The Gift of the Givers is to provide bottled water and JoJo tanks to the Kakamas community in the Northern Cape after seven people died of heat stroke. On Friday, the organisation said the “combination of rising temperatures and load-shedding has resulted in compromised water delivery, thereby impacting hydration levels[…]
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