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Oxfam South Africa Interim ED, Ms. Nkateko
Chauke (left), with Keynote Speaker Ms.
Lebogang Mulaisi from The SA Presidential
Climate Commission.

G20 dialogue puts women at the heart of South Africa’s just transition.

Experts say gender inclusion is key to a sustainable energy shift in emerging economies. As part of South Africa’s G20 discussions ahead of the leaders’ summit in November, Oxfam…

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Trump’s budget cut: International Commodity Summit responds aggressively

In response to US President Donald Trump’s budget cuts, ICS2025 will provide an opportunity for dialogue between affected nations, economic leaders, and policymakers to address…

Palestinians injured in Israeli air raids arrive at Nasser Medical Hospital on October 27, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Violence surges in occupied West Bank as Israel steps up attacks on Gaza

Oxfam International says ‘starvation is being used as a weapon of war against Gaza civilians’.

The South African Reserve Bank is likely to hold interest rates unchanged

Economic growth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

It is easy to become fixated on growth, even when it holds little promise of a better life for all — and has fed the climate crisis

(Paul Botes/M&G)

Climate change will hit G7 economies harder than Covid, research finds

Countries with the biggest industrialised economies could see an average loss of 8.5% of economic value by 2050, according to an Oxfam analysis

A man infected with Covid-19 lies in bed at ward number 20 of the Tembisa Hospital in Tembisa, on March 2, 2021. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio/AFP)

SADC remains conspicuously silent on vaccines as many continue to die

The SADC states have failed to deliver on their human rights obligations by not securing vaccines

More than 50 women accuse aid workers in the DRC of sexual exploitation and abuse, according to an investigation by The New Humanitarian and Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Women accuse aid workers of sexual abuse during the DRC’s Ebola crisis

More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and leading nongovernmental organisations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the…

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It’s not a case of jobs or lives. Jobs are lives

Starvation is driving the spread of the coronavirus and the government needs to let people work and create jobs

World Economic Forum report ranks South Africa among the countries with the worst record of upward social mobility — with poor education, health and unfair or low wages being the key factors.
(Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Shake up institutions controlling the economy to dislodge inequality

The state uses policies and regulations to drive socioeconomic change, but market bias dominates

Efforts to roll back the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever have been hampered by fighting but also by resistance within communities to preventative measures, care facilities and safe burials. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

More than 1 000 dead in DRC Ebola epidemic

The current outbreak is the second deadliest on record, after an epidemic killed more than 11 300 people in West Africa in 2014-2016

(Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

The human cost of fast fashion

Oxfam report reveals 100% of workers surveyed at Bangladeshi factories which make clothes for H&M and Cotton On are unable to make ends meet.

Editorial: It’s dangerous to other foreigners (Photo Archive)

Editorial: Wealthy must pay their taxes and cut the crap

‘We are trapped in a vortex in which nothing really changes’

Unregulated housing embodies the worst intersections of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation. Johannesburg’s future demands sustainable urban planning and community participation. Photo: File

World’s 26 richest own same as poorest half of humanity — Oxfam

A new report from the charity was published ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos

A deal reached at the UN’s COP24 climate summit earlier this month was criticised for not matching the ambition of the world’s most vulnerable countries. (Eric Vidal/Reuters)

NGOs launch legal action against France over climate

The NGOs allege that France, where greenhouse gas emissions rose again in 2015, has not met its short-term climate objectives

Razed: Elizabeth Hadebe stands near the rubble of what used to be her home in Kliprand near Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Scramble for minerals leaves rural families homeless

Rural dwellers displaced in the pursuit of corporate profits lose far more than just their land

(Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Would-be Xolobeni miner has ‘broken’ West Coast promises

A new report by Oxfam shows how the mine allegedly breached the terms of its mining rights agreement

(Phillipe Lopez/AFP)

It’s not just Xolobeni: What the Australian mining company did in the Western Cape

A new report by Oxfam reveals the company’s poor track record in a South African community

A Banting diet for politicians? If that’s the case we have to go way beyond carbs and sugar.

MSF reveals sex abuse cases as Oxfam scandal widens

French group Doctors Without Borders is the latest to join in the scandal over sexual abuse in the foreign aid industry

A marked man throughout his journalistic career

UK aid chief warns charities after Oxfam sex scandal

The scandal led to the resignation of Oxfam’s deputy head and has thrown into question government funding of roughly £32 million for the charity

About two-thirds of South Africa’s wealth is held by the top 1% and about 90% is held by the top 10% — an enormous concentration of wealth

More billionaires but wealth gap between rich and poor widens

In South Africa, growth in 2017 went to the top 1% most wealthy people and nothing to the bottom 50%