Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
gift of the giverslatest news & developments
Diplomacy: ‘The United States has taken an adversarial, aggressive stance against multilateralism in general. Even in the first term of President
Trump, he did the same with the G7 and other multilateral forums,’ international relations expert Donovan E Williams says. Photo: Supplied

US ratchets up diplomatic war against South Africa

The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott

Six people have died and one remains unaccounted for after severe flash floods hit the Eastern Cape over the weekend.

Six people dead and hundreds evacuated in Eastern Cape floods

Search-and-rescue operations continued overnight after 70 people were saved from the floods

Faith-baiting: Flowers are laid to respect the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, for which Isis has claimed responsibility. Photo: Contributor/Getty Images

Let’s make a worthy God in our own image

If we make God in our image, let it not be the genocidal maniac worthy only of contempt but rather a God of kindness, worthy of our worship

Lee Callakoppen, Bonitas’ principal officer.

Working towards improving South Africa’s healthcare

Bonitas goes above and beyond to overcome local socio-demographic and economic obstacles

Add Hope festive campaign exceeds expectations

More than R19 million raised for Gift of the Givers

Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Hunger strikes the heart of South Africa

Pleas for food assistance to aid groups from the malnourished are intensifying in cities and rural areas

Imtiaz Sooliman, of Gift of the Givers.

Imtiaz Sooliman praises ‘resilient’ South Africans

Most citizens choose not to burn schools, houses and roads or loot in protest, even as they starve

Photo: Getty Images

Gift of the Givers celebrates as 80-year-old woman is rescued from quake rubble

Death tolls passes 37 000 as humanitarian organisation and SAPS dog unit continue search for more survivors in Türkiye and Syria

Equal care for all: A man gets his eyes tested outside the Phelophepa mobile health train in Pienaarsrivier. John Wessels/AFP

Healthcare accessibility is a matter of public-private collaboration

In the more impoverished and remote areas, healthcare is either unavailable or too far away, leaving a sizeable portion of South Africans without the resources to travel to…

Video

Where are the anti-racism accountability bodies?

The field of such NGOs is crowded but who and what are they holding to account and who are they mollycoddling?

South Africa’s education system leaves many children behind due to crumbling infrastructure, teacher shortages and a lack of educational progress. Photo:
(Darren Stewart)

‘Our hearts are broken, we are left with nothing’

The family of 10-year-old Shakirah Hajji and her Westville home disappeared in a mudslide. She is just one of many desperate children harmed by the KwaZulu-Natal floods

Gauteng Premier David Makhura said the province would do whatever is needed to address the shortage of additional space and beds to accommodate the rising Covid-19 admissions in hospitals.

Gauteng’s third-wave contagion is heading towards a worst-case scenario

Tighter measures are necessary to contain Covid-19’s spread in Gauteng, but returning to level-five restrictions is not on the cards, says Makhura