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Gill Gifford

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.

Suspended crime intelligence deputy boss Maj-Gen Feroz Khan. File photo:

Shot SAPS general Feroz Khan discharged from hospital

Family says suspended crime intelligence boss begins intensive rehabilitation while questions mount over stalled shooting investigation

  • Gill Gifford
Puppeteers enacting a scenario where a small family herd of elephants (mothers and calves) are going about their lives when they are subjected to lethal culling by helicopter.

WATCH | Powerful puppet film urges South Africa to rethink elephant culls

Handspring’s life-size creations tell an emotional story as conservationists call for humane alternatives.

  • Gill Gifford
Victor Asiwe, who grew up in Potchefstroom, has graduated in the top 1% of his MBA class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Victor Asiwe’s hard journey from Potch to the top 1% at Stanford

Stanford scholar’s remarkable rise from self-taught coder to Silicon Valley’s doorstep, finding hard problems and great people along the way.

  • Gill Gifford
BBC journalist Lebo Diseko has penned a memoir that explores the Soweto Uprising. Picture:

A written journey into family, trauma and freedom, in a house that held a revolution

How a memoir about the Soweto uprising became an unexpected journey into buried secrets, inherited trauma and healing for a BBC journalist

  • Gill Gifford
Nick Harding and Arnold Sodinga are locked in a battle with Standard Bank over R55,000 the bank says Sodinga still owes on his R48,000 RDP home loan.

R300k paid but R55k still owing on R48k RDP house after 18 years

Labourer Arthur Sodinga bought a small RDP house in 2008 after securing a R48,000 home loan with Standard Bank. But despite repaying almost R300,000 in the past 18 years, as of this week he still owed the bank more than R55,000.

  • Gill Gifford
Dina and Ernst Marais, the retired couple who were ambushed and murdered in the Kruger National Park.

Police reportedly closing in on Kruger National Park killers

Murdered couple's vehicle said to have been found 350km away in Mozambique

  • Gill Gifford
President Cyril Ramaphosa may have committed a serious violation of the constitution, according to an independent panel's findings. File picture:

Ramaphosa moves to kill Phala Phala report, threatens interdict to halt impeachment

Impeachment proceedings cannot continue while Ramaphosa challenges legality of panel’s findings, he says

  • Gill Gifford
The bodies of two missing tourists have been found by game viewers in the Kruger National Park. The case has been referred to police for investigation. Stock image

Missing tourists found dead in Kruger National Park

‘Gruesome’ bodies spotted by other tourists game viewing in northern Kruger National Park

  • Gill Gifford
A fire broke out on April 16 2021 at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg. File photo.

‘They’re still lying to us about the shocking state of Charlotte Maxeke’

Five years after a devastating fire, Charlotte Maxeke remains crippled by delays, underspending and bureaucratic warfare doctors say Public Protector findings reveal a fraction of the crisis.

  • Gill Gifford
Fired Lumka Oliphant wants department of social development acting minister Sindisiwe Chikunga to intervene in her dismissal dispute.

Fired communications boss Oliphant takes aim at department over dismissal

Former communications chief calls on acting minister Sindisiwe Chikunga to retract public claims and intervene before legal war

  • Gill Gifford
The Door of Hope's baby saver box in which mothers can safely relinquish their babies. The facility has become part of a court action.

‘I love you my child’: the heartbreak behind SA’s fight over baby saver boxes

Rights groups say criminalising safe relinquishment will drive desperate mothers underground — and cost babies’ lives

  • Gill Gifford
The price of putting meat on the table is fast becoming a luxury for many South Africans.

Braai staples now luxuries as fuel and power hikes loom

Red meat surges, fuel and power hikes threaten to reignite food inflation squeeze

  • Gill Gifford
The dispute, which grew from a simple employment case involving a worker earning about R20,000 per month into a lengthy legal battle resulting in a multimillion-rand award, ended for Etienne Jordaan on Friday when the Cape Town Labour Court granted him an award of almost R3.2m plus interest and costs.

Maintenance fitter wins right to R3.2m payout after 13-year legal fight with Rainbow Chicken

Long-running labour dispute ends with food giant ordered to cough up after twice firing their employee

  • Gill Gifford
Dubai-based restaurateur Nicky van der Walt heard a first explosion as he was speaking to his father on the phone. File photo.

‘It was surreal, completely crazy’: SA restaurateur tells of close miss in Dubai

Dubai-based South African restaurateur Nicky van der Walt has described explosions in the city on Saturday, as Iran retaliated against attacks by the US and Israel, as “surreal, completely crazy”.

  • Gill Gifford
The Road Traffic Infringement Agency denies outsourcing its mandate but admits urgent need for private capital as critics warn of “perverse incentives” and profit from fines.

Tickets for Aarto amid state body’s poverty plea

Cash-strapped RTIA seeks private ‘turnkey’ partner for traffic fine management system as watchdog warns of profit-driven incentives.

  • Gill Gifford