Oxfam Press Statements - Oxfam South Africa

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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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