Gift of the Givers’ founder and CEO Imtiaz Sooliman says Covid-19 has “outsmarted” South Africa, and it is now better that the country learns to live with the virus. Everybody wanted to get their products or their food rations for lockdown," Imtiaz Sooliman, a trained medical doctor, says in a serious tone. Dismissing a notification on his phone, Sooliman says the 10-week national lockdown forced too many everyday South Africans to become reliant on the state. Fifty-eight-year-old Sooliman started Gift of the Givers, Waqful Waqifin in Arabic, in 1992 after he visited a spiritual teacher in Turkey. I would move heaven and earth to help that child, my child, so every other child is my child too."

Source: News 24 May 30, 2020 06:01 UTC