Successful Campaigns

Campaign Update: Good news, Nestle has cancelled their Mum and Child Forum event with You Magazine. Read more here: https://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-08-12-nutrition-activists-urge-nestle-to-cancel-free-stokvel-mom-and-child-forum-saying-it-violates-sa-regulations/. Our work to campaign for food justice and corporate accountability continues! #NotTodayNestle

- 21 April 2020 - President Ramaphosa announced that child support grant beneficiaries will receive an extra R300 in May and from June to October they will receive an additional R500 each month. The social grant increase was less than the campaign called for, but this is a step in the right direction. All other grant beneficiaries will receive an extra R250 per month for the next six months. In addition, a special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant of R350 a month for the next six months will be paid to individuals who are currently unemployed and do not receive any other form of social grant or UIF payment. - 23 April 2020 - Sassa has now stated that the Child Support Grant increase for beneficiaries from June to October is not for each child, but for each caregiver. This is unacceptable. Campaign supporters mobilised and demanded President Ramaphosa to stick to his commitment to an increase for each beneficiary, not just caregiver. The President ignored this demand. - 13 October 2020 - The top-ups on social grants were scheduled to be cut by the end of October. Campaign supporters mobilised in huge numbers to contact the Presidency, Deputy President, Minister of Finance and Minister of Social Development. The top-ups were cut. However, the R350 COVID-19 SRD grant was kept.

YouCaring agreed to end the crowdfunding campaign for Penny Sparrow.

Following opposition, the City of Johannesburg has withdrawn the proposed R50 recycling fee, see https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/coj-pikitup-withdraw-r50-recycling-levy-proposal-2021-05-13/rep_id:4136

18 June 2019 - * Gallagher Estate and Shimmy Beach Club have both cancelled the Koffi Olomide's performance https://citizen.co.za/lifestyle/your-life-entertainment-your-life/2144302/shimmy-beach-club-cancels-koffi-olomide-event-amid-pressure/

Khanyile was released.

MEC of Education initiated an investigation into the school. The report found the learners allegations to be true and made the following recommendations: - That action be taken against the teachers responsible; - That the school’s code of conduct be reviewed and - The school should implement diversity training and cultural awareness programmes. Three months after the trainings, an independent agency would conduct an anonymous "cultural survey" to get the views of pupils on progress made.

Majority of people have been funded. But some are not.

The article was retracted by the editor and publisher for "serious flaws exist in the methodology and reporting of the original study". For more info see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13825585.2019.1598538

We sent campaign signatures to the Minister of Justice. The department acknowledged receipt. As well as public pressure, our friends at the Nelson Mandela Foundation made an application to the Equality Court, to have gratuitous displays of the apartheid flag banned. The Department of Justice provided a supporting submission to the affidavits submitted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The Equality Court agreed that the gratuitous displays of the apartheid flag should be banned. https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/apartheid-flag-ruling-gratuitous-display-constitutes-hate-speech-20190821