Some of South Africa’s biggest companies have pledged millions of rand to help fund a prominent charity’s response to deadly floods, highlighting the government’s shortcomings when it comes to managing and dispensing relief.
The Gift of the Givers stepped in to help those affected by the floods and landslides that washed away roads, bridges and thousands of houses in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province and elsewhere last month. Its efforts were praised in the local press and on social media, and an influx of donations followed.
Trust in Gift of the Givers is not “something that was achieved overnight,” its founder Imtiaz Sooliman said in an interview. “People have seen our action for the last 30 years but they’d taken more note during the time of Covid.” Ramaphosa acknowledged that the government faces a trust deficit, enlisted an independent organization to help manage state funds allocated for flood relief and ordered real-time audits of the expenditure.
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