"We are worried about school; we have no bags, no stationery, no uniforms. We will fall behind in our education whilst other children will work".

Relief and charity organisations have initiated a wide-scale aid relief effort after tornadoes wreaked havoc in two provinces.

South Africa's Ubuntu Spirit knows no bounds. We are indeed making an emphatic continental statement that Africa is coming to the aid of Africans unreservedly. The power is not in the proclamation but in the execution: being the first African agency and the only agency in the world to fly 6 planes into Mogadishu in a two week period delivering 112 tons of aid, gave a very good feel being South African.