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#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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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