Oxfam Press Statements - Oxfam South Africa

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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