Gill Gifford Senior journalist

Gill Gifford is a senior journalist at the Sunday Times who has previously worked as news editor at Health-e News and in senior reporting positions at eNCA, Newzroom Afrika and The Star.

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
‘Mama, is there a piece of bread?’ – the desperate cry of SA’s hungry children

The report, titled ‘Children, Social Assistance and Food Security’, lays out a heartbreaking narrative on how the country’s poorest children are ...

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Doctor who died in Netcare chopper crash ‘won't be commemorated with the others’

Family asked that his name be removed after dispute with medical company.

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Comrades 2022: smaller field, entrance fee doubled, vax certificate required

This year’s Comrades Marathon, back after a two-year Covid-19 hiatus, is not only set to have fewer runners but the entry fee has doubled.

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Activists to protest for repair and reopening of Charlotte Maxeke hospital

Defend Our Democracy, a campaign urging South Africans to defend the constitution and democracy, will hold a picket to call for the speedy repair and ...

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Cabbage Bandit sees red over size of men and women in blue

Stirrer of note moves on from sidewalk food gardens to the diets of policemen pounding the pavements

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Wife and lover arrested for Limpopo cop's murder

Almost eight months after a Limpopo police officer was murdered, his wife and a man alleged to be her boyfriend have been arrested.

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Eskom security guards bust at scrapyard with stolen copper cables

Two scrap metal dealers and three Eskom security guards have been arrested in connection with stolen aluminium and copper cables in the Free State.

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
‘We are horrified': Save the Children after 350 kids are murdered in three ...

International humanitarian aid organisation Save the Children is horrified at SA’s latest crime statistics released by police minister Bheki Cele on ...

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
Northcliff Corner bidding war ends without a sale

The Johannesburg shopping mall remains on the market after the highest auction bid was rejected.

Gill Gifford Senior journalist
When it comes to policing, guess which communities don’t see the boys in blue

Here’s a clue: Joburg’s Rosebank has 82 officers for 8,308 people. Diepsloot has 114 serving 143,391 people