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Attention: Editors
Date: 20 November 2025
G20 billionaires’ fortunes rise by $2.2 trillion in just one year, more than enough to lift everyone above the global poverty line
The amount of wealth that the G20’s own billionaires made just last year – $2.2...
Attention: Editors
Date: 8 October 2025
As part of the official programme of the Women 20 (W20) Summit, Oxfam South Africa, in partnership with W20 South Africa, will host an evening dialogue and dinner titled “Solving Debt Justice in the Current Polycrises...
Attention: Editors
Date: 23 September 2025
Oxfam South Africa Welcomes President Ramaphosa’s Call for Debt Reform and Equity at UNGA 80: A Moment to #TaxTheSuperRich and Advance Justice for All.
Oxfam South Africa (OZA) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the 80th Session...
Date: 05 August 2025
Statement from Oxfam South Africa confirming Governance Leadership
Oxfam South Africa is aware of recent public comments made by Dr. Simamkele Dlakavu, in which she refers to herself as the new head of the Board for Oxfam South...
Press Release: Oxfam South Africa Calls for Global Action to “Tax the Super Rich” at Y20 Summit 2025
Press Release: Oxfam South Africa Calls for Global Action to “Tax the Super Rich” at Y20 Summit 2025
Attention: Editors
Date: 18 August 2025
Oxfam South Africa Calls for Global Action to “Tax the Super Rich” at Y20 Summit 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa — Oxfam South Africa (OZA) will convene a high-level side event at the Y20 Summit on Tuesday,...
Attention: Editors
Date: 8 August 2025
Oxfam South Africa, City Hope Disaster Relief, and ActionAid SA Intensify Support for Survivors of Mthatha Floods — But More Help Is Urgently Needed
Nearly two months after devastating floods swept through communities in Mthatha, survivors are...
Attention: Editors
Date: 5 August 2025
Oxfam South Africa calls for gender justice and inclusive policies in the clean energy transition.
As South Africa leads the G20 for the first time, Oxfam South Africa is calling on governments, investors, and development partners to...
Attention: Editors
Date: 30 July 2025
African Women Lead Conversations on Mining and Agriculture at G20 Think Tank Event
As South Africa hosts the G20 Summit this year, Oxfam South Africa will convene leaders, policymakers, community voices and researchers for a landmark dialogue...
Attention: Editors
Seville, Spain — 2 July 2025
Oxfam South Africa (OZA) welcomes the launch of the Global Coalition to Tax the Super-Rich by South Africa, Brazil, and Spain at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) as a...
Attention: Editors
Date: 30 June 2025
On June 16, while South Africa commemorated the young revolutionaries of 1976 who rose up for freedom and justice, we also honoured another group of quiet revolutionaries—domestic workers.
Their resistance is not in protests or placards, but...
Attention: Editors
Date: 11 June 2025
Early Warning Systems Are Not Enough. Government Must Act Now to Protect Rural Communities.
This week, South Africa has experienced severe and abnormal weather patterns threatening lives and livelihoods. Heavy snowfall and rains in the Eastern Cape...
Attention: Editors
Date: 06 June 2025
Delivered by Ms Nkateko Chauke – Interim Executive Director Oxfam South Africa on the occasion of the 57th Plenary held in Victoria Falls Town, Zimbabwe.
“Oxfam has been an active player in development at regional, continental...
Attention: Editors
Date: 13 May 2025
Shocking Job Losses Expose the Deep Gender Faultline in South Africa’s Labour Market.
The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for Q1 2025 reveals a sobering truth: South Africa’s economic crisis is once again leaving womxn behind....
Attention: Editors
Date: 6 May 2025
Oxfam South Africa (OZA) is an organisation committed to ending poverty and inequality. Rooted in African feminist values, OZA’s work spans four interrelated impact areas: Womxn, Justice and Power; Just Economies; Climate Justice; and Just and...
Attention: Editors
Date: 1 May 2025
While South African CEOs raked in an average of R30 million in 2024, local workers saw real wage growth of just 0.6%—a sobering reflection of global trends exposed in Oxfam’s latest report. Around the world, CEO...
Our Mission
It is to work at multiple levels of society for lasting solutions, challenging the systems and structures of power which perpetuate poverty and inequality, and intervene in practical ways to end suffering where needed.
The Oxfam confederation works in over...
Attention: Editors
Date: 10 April 2025
The recent events in South Africa underscore serious flaws in our Justice System —particularly in how Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases are reported and handled. These failures are evident at every stage of the judicial process –...
OXFAM SOUTH AFRICA (OZA)is not for profit entity and an affiliate of the Oxfam confederation and has fully operational offices in Parktown Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Oxfam South Africa (OZA) is a social justice organisation working at the intersection of poverty...
Mandaluyong, Manila, looking toward Makati. (Photo: Johnnie Miller/unequalscenes.com)
Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, three times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely reduced since 1990.
Oxfam predicts there will be at...
C20 Summit Outcomes and the roadmap to South Africa’s G20 Presidency.
Attention: Editors
Date: 15 November 2024
The Brazilian Presidency of the G20 comes to an end next month, and civil society in South Africa are readying to take on the C20 in...
Attention: Editors
Date: July 27, 2024
Oxfam welcomes the G20 Ministerial Declaration on International Tax Cooperation agreed to in Rio de Janeiro today.
Oxfam South Africa congratulates Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana for supporting the declaration, which includes a commitment to working together to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 5, 2024
Cape Town, South Africa As the world’s biggest mining companies – of some of the worst emitters of carbon - converge in Cape Town, South Africa, to deliberate multi-billion-dollar mining deals, Oxfam joins progressive organisations and...
29 November 2023
Johannesburg, South Africa — As the world converges for the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Expo City, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates...
Saturday, 25 November 2023
As we approach the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we are compelled to address the upcoming 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.
There can be no doubt that the world finds itself at a...
Media Advisory
For Immediate Release
Oxfam South Africa’s Executive Director, Lebogang Ramafoko to address United Nations on the cost of climate change.
Oxfam South Africa’s Executive Director, Ms Lebogang Ramafoko will today address the United Nations on the loss and damage caused...
MEDIA STATEMENT
Oxfam South Africa: Crisis of Hunger needs urgent attention #WorldFoodDay
Monday, October 16, 2023
Attention: Editors
#WorldFoodDay The crisis of hunger in South Africa requires urgent attention.
Oxfam South Africa has learnt from its programmatic and advocacy work with communities in South...
For immediate release: 28 September 2023
Allied organisations under the African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ)* consortium, condemn the brutal handling and arrest of protesters attending an Extinction Rebellion-organised sit-in at the Standard Bank headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week....
#UNGA78
Attention: Editors
DATE: Tuesday, September 19, 2023
WHEN President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers South Africa’s statement to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, he will carry the hopes and expectations of the region, not just the...
Meet Tembakazi Peter, an extraordinary community leader and the visionary founder of Farmers Network in Kwa-Bhaca Mount Frere, South Africa. 🌱🌍 This dynamic cooperative is a lifeline for small-scale farmers, dedicated to fortifying resilience and tackling the pressing food security...
Reflecting on Women's Day: Empowering Change and Equality
In commemoration of Women's Day in South Africa, Channel Africa invited Oxfam South for a reflective session. The insightful perspective of Lebo Ramafoko, the esteemed Executive Director of Oxfam South Africa, enriched the...
Lebogang Ramafoko, executive director of Oxfam South Africa, is an outspoken feminist and social justice activist with an unbroken advocacy record for women and girls' rights.
Oxfam South Africa became the first autonomous African member of the Oxfam International (OI) confederation...
Oxfam South Africa and its partners in Madagascar have built the first safe haven in the city of Morondava.
The area is prone to disasters due to cyclones, and often schools have to be used as emergency shelters during cyclone season.
The...
Oxfam South Africa believes gender equality can be achieved in the tech industry.
The organisation's Executive Director, Lebogang Ramafoko, spoke about the requirements needed to achieve this goal on the sidelines of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at...
Oxfam South Africa and its partners attended the 14th annual Alternative Mining Indaba in Cape Town from the 7th - 9th of February 2023.
The AMI was held under the theme, "A just energy transition: Unlocking Community Potential and Participation."
Also taking...
Oxfam South Africa and the social justice and human rights community mourn the passing of Myrtle Witbooi.
At the time of her death, Witbooi was the general secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union (SADSAWU).
Witbooi was a social justice organiser...
By Vuyokazi Futshane-Project Officer at Oxfam South Africa
Austerity as an invisible and deadly form of violence, precisely because we cannot see, hear, touch, taste or smell it.
The story of gender-based violence in South Africa is a story of a nation...
The South African Police Services reported on Wednesday, November 23, 2022, that over 17 000 cases of gender-based violence were reported across the country between July and September 2022.
This is an increase of 5,000 cases compared to the first quarter...
On Sunday, countries at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) that was held last week in Egypt adopted a final agreement that included the establishment of a fund for loss and damage to assist vulnerable communities affected by...
Global temperatures have risen 1.1 degrees Celsius and are heading towards 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the UN's climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
If temperatures rise from 1.7 to 1.8 degrees Celsius, the IPCC estimates that half...
In January 2022, at least 14 people died in the Eastern Cape due to flash floods, and hundreds more were displaced after their homes were destroyed.
Eighteen million people are on the brink of starvation in the world’s 10 worst climate hot spots, which...
02 September 2022
Landmark ruling on the seismic oil exploration in the Wild Coast: The people and planet first before profits.
Oxfam South Africa welcomes the ruling of Judge President Mbenenge, presiding over the court case on the seismic...
25 August 2022
MEDIA STATEMENT ON COSATU AND SAFTU-LED NATIONAL SHUTDOWN: DEMANDING URGENT ECONOMIC INTERVENTION FROM THE STATE
Press Release: Oxfam South Africa stands in Solidarity with the #NationalShutdown
On 24th August 2022, COSATU and SAFTU organized a nationwide shutdown over the escalating...
The Corona Virus Pandemic is indiscriminately disrupting lives across our world, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Download the Oxfam SA Statement of Solidarity
21st March 2017
MINING ACTIVISTS REMEMBER SLAIN ACTIVIST BAZOOKA RADEBE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY.
Communities from mining-affected areas used human rights day by commemorating the death of mining activist Bazooka Radebe at his home village in the Eastern Cape.
Radebe was killed on...
Fallists went head-to-head with National Treasury director-general Lungisa Fuzile at the Mail & Guardian’s Critical Thinking Forum on Increasing Inclusive Economic Development In South Africa, held at the University of the Witwatersrand on the last day of February.
This comes in light of...
BY RONALD WESSO
PARLIAMENT recently passed the Expropriation Bill, which now only needs the signature of President Jacob Zuma to become law. Does this mean there will soon be big changes in the way land reform takes place in SA? Or...
International advocacy group Oxfam this week produced a report on global inequality to coincide with the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, triggering a backlash from a variety of free market think-tanks and professional commentators worldwide.
Oxfam’s major claim is...
By SIMAMKELE DLAKAVU & AYABONGA CAWE
A ‘business as usual‘ approach to both scholarship and policy in South Africa is perpetuating gross inequality. Conservative economic policy has privileged the maintenance of the status quo in the economy, the realm of the...
Protest against mining in Xolobeni. Photo courtesy of Dick Forslund
By Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Sithandiwe Yeni
21 April 2016
The murder of Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, a leading opponent of titanium mining in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, marks a crisis that has been...
The Daily Vox highlights five prolific women who are working to ensure that addressing violence against women remains a priority throughout the year. Our very own Kwezilomso Mbadazayo makes the list.
As the women’s rights and gender justice programmes manager for Oxfam South...
Siphokazi Mthathi calls for women to live their freedom in an op-ed piece for News24. Here's an excerpt below:
During these 16 Days of Activism for no Violence Against Women and Children, we reclaim the empowering narratives of young black women...
The incidents of the 4th April at Wits University and the violence meted out to a group of Queer Feminists; by known male leaders of the Fallist movement is deeply disappointing.
According to the queer feminists who were attacked, the decision...
BY SIPHO MTHATHI
CLIMATE change is happening: Scientists say it is, environmentalists agree and, most important, women farmers report the truth of it. Oxfam is very clear that climate change is the biggest threat to global hunger and that it is...
By Sipho Mthathi
JOHANNESBURG, Jun 12 2015 (IPS) - Africa is known as the ‘paradox of plenty’. How can a continent so rich in natural resources be so poor?
Economic growth is predicted to increase by 4.5 percent across the continent this...
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