Oxfam Press Statements - Oxfam South Africa

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Media Reaction: Quarterly Labour Force Study Q1 2025 Stats SA Report.

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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....

Media Statement: Oxfam South Africa Welcomes New Board Members to Advance its Vision for a Fair and Equitable Future

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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...

Global CEO pay increased by 50 percent since 2019, 56 times more than worker wages

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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...

The Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and a Failing Justice System.

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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 Publishes 'Takers not Makers' Inequality Report

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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...

Takers not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth from colonialism.

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New Oxfam Report Mandaluyong, Manila, looking toward Makati. (Photo: Johnnie Miller/unequalscenes.com) Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. At least five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has...

Oxfam South Africa Non-Executive Director Recruitment

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Join Oxfam South Africa as a Non-Executive Director and Drive Systemic Change Oxfam South Africa (OZA), a pioneering social justice organization, is seeking to appoint four visionary Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) to its Board. These leaders will play a pivotal role in...

G20 Update Alert

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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...

Oxfam welcomes G20 Ministers' decision to tax the super-rich

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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...

The 2024 Alternative Mining Indaba – Catalysing a Revolutionary Inclusive and Feminist Future in Africa’s Extractive Sector.

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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...

OXFAM: Championing Bold Climate Action at COP28: Calls for a Just and Equitable Energy Transition and Enhanced Climate Finance

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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...

MEDIA STATEMENT OXFAM: ‘GBV, Inequality, and the Climate Crisis are inextricable crises’

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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...

Oxfam South Africa’s Executive Director, Lebogang Ramafoko to address United Nations on the cost of climate change.

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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...

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The crisis of hunger in South Africa requires urgent attention.

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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...

President Ramaphosa to Address UN General Assembly

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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...

Oxfam, partners mounting a humanitarian response for Cyclone Freddy survivors

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15 March 2023 Media statement : Oxfam and partners mounting a humanitarian response to help people affected by cyclone in Malawi and Mozambique More than 250 people including women and children have been killed in Mozambique, Malawi and Madagascar, and millions more...

#CSW2023: Achieving gender equality in tech

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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...

MEDIA ADVISORY | INVITATION

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“THE PARADOX OF PLENTY” A PANEL DISCUSSION ON NATURAL RESOURCES, GOVERNANCE AND VIOLENT CONFLICT Oxfam will host a panel discussion on ‘the paradox of plenty’, exploring the links between natural resources, governance and violent conflict. The panel discussion will explore the ‘resource curse’...

14th Annual Alternative Mining Indaba

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Oxfam and its partners will be attending the 14th annual Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) in Cape Town from the 7th – 9th of February 2023. The AMI will take place at the University of Cape Town's Business Graduate Conference Centre...

2022 Medium Term Budget Policy Speech falls short

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The medium-term budget delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday 26th October 2022 lacks a gender responsive lens, undermines socio-economic rights, and wilfully ignores calls for just and accountable governance. The rising levels of inequality and poverty are unsustainable. They...

LANDMARK RULING ON THE SEISMIC OIL EXPLORATION IN THE WILD COAST

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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...

SOLIDARITY WITH THE #NATIONALSHUTDOWN

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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...

Oxfam SA Statement of Solidarity - Corona Virus Epidemic

Oxfam SA Statement of Solidarity in the context of the Corona Virus Epidemic

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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

Wild Coast anti-mining activist Nonhle Mbuthuma: ‘They must kill me alone, not with my family’

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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MEDIA STATEMENT

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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...

'Growing inequality threatens to pull our societies apart'

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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...

World Aids Day 2016

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The South African theme for 2016 World Aids Day is “it’s in our hands to end HIV and TB”. We welcome this theme as we believe that it is possible to end HIV. HIV/AIDS remains a crisis in South Africa where...

Enough is Enough together we can End violence against women and children

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Enough is enough: Oxfam seeks to end violence against women and girls once and for all. Gender inequality is both the cause and the consequence of violence against women and girls, said Oxfam today, as the agency launches a new global...

Submission of Oxfam South Africa to the Fees Commission

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Oxfam South Africa works at multiple levels of society, collaborating to alleviate suffering, challenge and change systems that perpetuate poverty and inequality, promoting equal access, participation and voice. Oxfam South Africa is a registered non-profit organization in South Africa, working...

Oxfam SA welcomes the release of state capture report, calls on citizens to use it to reclaim their country

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Oxfam South Africa welcomes the release of the State of the Capture Report by the Office of the Public Protector which sheds some light on the on-going irregularities and corruption involving senior government officials and private business people. The report also...

Oxfam SA welcomes the national minimum wage panel

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Oxfam South Africa welcomes the invitation of its Economic Justice Programme Head, Ayabonga Cawe, to the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel by the Deputy-President of South Africa Mr Cyril Ramaphosa. The seven-member panel will advise on an appropriate level at which the...

Millions in southern Africa at risk unless funding is forthcoming, say humanitarian agencies

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 28 July 2016 - Humanitarian agencies in southern Africa have called on donors to release urgently needed funds to save the lives and sustain the livelihoods of millions of people affected by a severe El Niño-induced drought...

#AIDS2016 – WHOSE CONFERENCE WAS IT ANYWAY?

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“I am a person first, before a virus defines me like a stain to humanity” a line from a poem written by a 19 year old HIV Positive woman and read at a convening of a Southern African consultation on...

OXFAM SOUTH AFRICA JOINS THE WORLD IN MOURNING THE PASSING OF MAMA PHYLLIS NTANTALA JORDAN

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We extend a word of revolutionary solidarity to her immediate family, and all those for whom this loss leaves an unbearable scar. We say to you, Thuthuzelekani. Phyllis Ntantala, who left this earth on the early morning of the 18th July...

Humanitarian Response in Malawi

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In response to the launch of the Humanitarian Response Plan by the Malawi government, Oxfam in Malawi’s Country Director, John Makina said: “Whilst Oxfam welcomes the government’s joint plan and commitment to provide much needed humanitarian aid to 6.5 million drought...

Six richest countries host less than 9% of refugees

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The six wealthiest countries - which make up more than half the global economy - host less than nine percent of the world’s refugees while poorer countries and territories are shouldering most of the responsibility, Oxfam said today. Jordan, Turkey,...

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