Never before in the history of our democracy has our country been confronted by such a severe threat to our health and future; however, it is a threat that we will be able to overcome if we work together.
Across our country, people and organisations have offered to help and the Solidarity Fund is the vehicle that has been set up to facilitate this.
R2.88 Billion
Unaudited figures as of 09/07. Please expect up to 48 hours for Donations to clear and reflect.
Received
| Company/Foundations | Individuals | Payroll Giving | |
|---|---|---|---|
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R2 756 960 042 |
R76 989 412 |
R49 605 965 |
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2
1
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| Goal | R4 Billion |
| Pledged | R3.02 Billion |
| Received | R2.88 Billion |
Donations Received
As of 09/07
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50+
millions
Mary Oppenheimer and Daughters
R1 000 142 225 Naspers Ltd R500 000 000 The ELMA South Africa Foundation R250 000 000 Ithubu National Lottery R50 000 000 Telesure Investment
HoldingsR50 000 000 -
20 - 50
millions
Ninety One Limited
R40 000 000 Anglo American/De Beers R36 928 700 Fynbos Kapitaal R32 082 726 IDC R25 000 000 Yellowwoods R20 655 900 AngloGold Ashanti Limited R20 000 000 Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa R20 000 000 Exxaro Resources R20 000 000 -
10 - 20
millions
The Coca-Cola Company South Africa R17 625 000 Capitec Bank Holdings Limited R15 000 000 Gold Fields Limited (GFL)
R15 000 000 Sibanye-Stillwater Limited R12 000 000 South32 R10 505 066 PSG Wealth Financial Planning (Pty) Ltd R10 050 000 ABSA Group R10 000 000 AVI Limited R10 000 000 Bidvest Group Limited R10 000 000 Discovery Limited R10 000 000 Hollard Group R10 000 000 Impala Platinum Holdings
LimitedR10 000 000 MTN Group R10 000 000 Santam Limited R10 000 000 The Federated Employers Mutual Assurance Company R10 000 000 -
5 - 10
millions
Coronation Fund Managers & Employees R9 458 334 SABMiller
R7 000 000 BNP Paribas Group R6 000 000 Claude Leon Foundation R5 000 000 Imperial Holdings Limited R5 000 000 Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Ltd R5 000 000 Nestlé R5 000 000 Rand Mutual Assurance R5 000 000 South African Sugar Association R5 000 000 Tshipi É Ntle Manganese Mining (Pty) Ltd R5 000 000 -
1 - 5
millions
Tronox KZN Sands (Pty) Limited
R4 600 000 Tronox Mineral Sands Proprietary Limited R4 600 000 Motus Holdings Limited R4 000 000 Sentech SOC Ltd R4 000 000 RCL Foods Limited R3 967 352 Clientele Life R3 455 500 AVBOB
R3 295 069 Goldman Sachs Give R3 057 738 The Nedbank Foundation
R3 000 000 Sphere Holdings
R2 500 000 Datatec Limited R2 000 000 Dis-Chem Pharmacies
LimitedR2 000 000 Shoprite Holdings Limited R2 000 000 Mr Price Group Limited R2 000 000 Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd R1 751 826 Education Labour Relations Council R1 500 000 Kathu Solar Park R1 500 000 Masimong Foundation R1 500 000 Engen Petroleum Limited R1 250 000 Ubank and the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC) R1 178 652 Golden Pond Trading 67 R1 176 000 Distell Group
R1 149 190 Adcock Ingram Holdings Ltd R1 100 000 The Menell Family R1 080 000 Caterpillar Foundation R1 021 965 Afrihost R1 000 000 Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited R1 000 000 Altron R1 000 000 ATC South Africa R1 000 000 Ball Family Foundation
R1 000 000 Bid Corporation Pty Ltd R1 000 000 Fondazione Labia Trust R1 000 000 GIC Re Limited R1 000 000 Gordon Schachat R1 000 000 Hire All R1 000 000 Kasada Capital Management
R1 000 000 LegalWise R1 000 000 Long4Life R1 000 000 Media24 R1 000 000 Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd R1 000 000 Rain Shared Services (Pty) Ltd R1 000 000 Reonet R1 000 000 Roche Pharmaceuticals R1 000 000 Sasfin Holdings Limited R1 000 000 Scorpion Legal Protection (Pty) Ltd R1 000 000 The Harry Crossley
FoundationR1 000 000 The Mamba Cement Company (Pty) Ltd R1 000 000 Tiber Construction (Pty) Ltd R1 000 000 WDB Trust
R1 000 000 Weir Minerals Africa (Pty) Ltd R1 000 000 Wiphold House R1 000 000 -
< 1
millions
298 668
Individual Donors
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Payroll Giving
AngloGold Ashanti Limited Avbob City of Ekurhuleni Staff Clicks Group Limited Clientele Life Democratic Alliance DRDGOLD Limited Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Emira Property Fund Fleetwood R Grobler Goldfields/GFL South Deep Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd Legal Expenses Insurance SA Long4Life Mary Oppenheimer and Daughters Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Ltd Old Mutual Wealth/Old Mutual Limited Parliament and Cabinet of Ministers Pepkor Holdings Ltd. President Cyril Ramaphosa Rothschild & Co. Safika Holdings (Pty) Ltd SARS Weir Minerals Africa (Pty) Ltd Yellowwoods -
Donor Roll
Adel Walker Alex Darko (Reunert Director) Alex Martins Andrew Ross Anthony Burgess Anthony Stroud Applesmart Aquelle Asheen Ganpath ASI Financial Services Association of Regional Magistrates of Southern Africa Axxess DSL (Pty) Ltd Aziza Mowzer Barker Insurance Brokers (Pty) Ltd BASF Holdings South Africa (Pty) Ltd Bateleur Capital (Pty) Ltd (donated through foundation) Bathandwa Fikeni Beyers Dames C Gerber Cars.co.za Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa NPC Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa Champ Champion Charl Kocks Charne Olivier Claire Bless Clare Davies Colgate Palmolive Collin Naidoo Commercial and Industrial Acceptances (Pty) Ltd Consulting Engineers South Africa Cool Ideas 27 (Pty) Ltd Council for Debt Collectors Danoher Darren van Eyssen David Fraser - Individual Dennis John Standish - White Domino Santo Effective Asset Management Solutions Elaine Dorward-King Elka Du Piesanie Ferring Firefly Investments Fizantakraal (Pty) Ltd Fleetwood R Grobler Flender FR Waring FUEL Trust Full Gospel Church SA Gareth Hooper Get Educated (Pty) Ltd t/a GetSmarter Gavin Rosenbaum Giesecke and Devrient Currency Technology South Africa (Pty) Ltd Global Handling CC Graeme Jackson Grant Torlage Grindrod Bank Grobbelaar Accountants (Pty) Ltd Hansie van Zyl Harambee Helios Design cc Hermina Lopion HG&H Pharmaceuticals (Pty) LTD Hitesh Dullabh Hollywood Sportsbook Holdings (Pty) ltd Honeywell Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd Hope Mortimer Ignatius Stefanus Retief Incumed (Pty) Ltd Ishmael Kerileng Italtile Ltd (donated through Italtile Foundation) ITOO Special Risks JAC Development James McQueen Janet Gie Jasper Power Company (RF) Jeetesh Ravji Jenali Skuse Jesse Copelyn John Hulley (Reunert Director) Juliette Burgess Just Retirement Life South Africa Limited Just SA Kanaka Babshet Kevin Petrie Kimberly Berry Lauren Varty Lawrence Hamilton Leomat Plant Hire (Pty) Ltd Lizette Kloppers Lombard Insurance Company Limited Luiza De Sousa Lundbeck Maccallum Pty Ltd Mahesh Bhicka Mainstream Asset Management South Africa (Pty) Ltd Mari Tredoux Meera Jeram Michael Allin Michael Baxter Michael Killick Mircrosoft Mineral-Loy Pty Ltd Mineware Consulting Miracle Communications (Pty) Ltd Miso Shongwe Mohini Padayachee Mondi South Africa (Pty) Ltd Monica Moshe Morne O'Conner Motus Corporation (Pty) Ltd Mukoma Houtsma MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet Nereshni Maharaj Nelesh Signh Nikela Trust and ROUNDA initiative NIM Agencies cc Nishan Pillay Nishana Ramdas Nkosenhle Raymond Machi Novartis South Africa (Pty) Ltd Onimole Akeem Olalekan Open Space Consultants cc t/a Southern Hemisphere Patrick Nemahunguni Pierre Fourie (Reunert Director) Pinkmatter Solutions Pratishkumar Chaganlal Daya Lakhoo Prepaid Utilities World (CC) Protea Capital Management Quentin Dollman Querisha Bastos R & N Master Builders Cape Pty Ltd Rabia Moosa Rate and Date Raymonde van der Scholtz Reabetswe Khumbane Rene Lamberts Reshma Parbhoo Rezco Collection Investments Rhidwaan Gasant Riaan Jacobs Riaan Venter Rita Thom Robyn van Basten Roger Hogarth Rolex Watch Company (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Roopen Nichha Rory Shea Ross Dold Rove Trading cc Salma Rawat Sanlam Private Wealth Shariah Sarita Martin (Reunert Director) Satrix Managers (RF) (Pty) Ltd Seabrooke Family Trust Seacom Sean Jagoe (Reunert Director) Servest Shaun Ryan Shunsuke Fujiwara Sibusiso Masheula Silica Holdings and Employees Sinayo Securities South African Hindu Maha Sabha South African National Seed Organization (SANSOR) Spear REIT Limited SRF Flexipak Stacie Moorhead Standard Bank Wealth and Investment Finance Team Stellar Capital Stephan Barratt Stephen Koseff - Individual Strategic Business Support (Pty) Ltd Suiderland Plase (Pty) Ltd Sukha and Associates Swift Chemicals Tara Terblanche Tasneem Abdool-Samad (Reunert Director) Thandi Orleyn (Reunert Director) The Wilfred and Fay Back Charitable Trust Theresia Stark Tiger Lily Research cc Tina Davidson Tom Stilwell TOMA-Now (Pty) Ltd Touchfire Creations cc Tower Property Fund Limited Trevor Munday (Reunert Director) Trinitty Thabethe Tumeka Matshoba-Ramuedzisi (Reunert Director) Tyla Cloete Umbono Marketing (Pty) Ltd Vaugham Lovegrove Viresh Dullabh Visio Fund Management Vodacom Foundation and Employees Wacom (Pty) Ltd Yulene Pretorius Zaayid Omar Zodwa Zungu Foundation Trust
Impact
Through this Fund, we aim to:
Prevent
Prevent the spread of the infection by supporting campaigns and communication measures to flatten the curve.
Detect
Detect and understand the magnitude of the disease through the supply of testing kits and research.
Care
Care for those in hospital or medical care by ensuring a supply of PPE (personal protective equipment).
Support
Support those whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic through the support of feeding and shelter programmes across the country.
| Allocated | Disbursements | |
| Prevent | 63 000 000 | 33 070 496 |
| Detect | 358 000 000 | 134 648 251 |
| Care | 1 440 120 136 | 630 363 092 |
| Support | 237 000 000 | 117 330 286 |
As of 09/07
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Prevent
Prevent the spread of the infection by supporting campaigns and communication measures to flatten the curve
Allocated Disbursements Prevent 63 000 000 33 070 496 Detect 358 000 000 134 648 251 Care 1 440 120 136 630 363 092 Support 237 000 000 117 330 286 As of 09/07
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Detect
Detect and understand the magnitude of the disease through the supply of testing kits and research.
Allocated Disbursements Prevent 63 000 000 33 070 496 Detect 358 000 000 134 648 251 Care 1 440 120 136 630 363 092 Support 237 000 000 117 330 286 As of 09/07
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Care
Care for those in hospital or medical care by ensuring a supply of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
Allocated Disbursements Prevent 63 000 000 33 070 496 Detect 358 000 000 134 648 251 Care 1 440 120 136 630 363 092 Support 237 000 000 117 330 286 As of 09/07
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Support
Support those whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic through the support of feeding and shelter programmes across the country.
Allocated Disbursements Prevent 63 000 000 33 070 496 Detect 358 000 000 134 648 251 Care 1 440 120 136 630 363 092 Support 237 000 000 117 330 286 As of 09/07
Solidarity in Action
280 000+
Food parcels delivered as of 09/07Food parcels delivered
250 000
We have exceeded our target of supplying food to 250 000 households.
We have delivered close onto 280 000 food parcels and counting, to date.
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Support
The Solidarity Fund disbursed R120m towards immediate food relief to be rolled out through the lockdown period to over 250 000 vulnerable households. We have breached our target and to date have distributed to more than 280 000 households. Distribution of the parcels was done through a range of partners, these include; the Department of Social Development, large food non-profits, community-based organisations and faith-based organisations – to optimise national coverage and impact. For a detailed view of the distribution please view our distribution map.
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Prevent
Sikhaba iCOVID Radio Shows
We remain in Solidarity with all initiatives worldwide, helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19. One of our key interventions is to Prevent the spread of the infection by supporting campaigns and communication measures to flatten the curve. One such initiative is the Sikhaba iCOVID-19 radio broadcasts on the SABC Public Radio Stations.
Driving behaviour change through our Citizens in Solidarity campaign.
The Solidarity Fund launched its Citizens in Solidarity campaign to help drive positive and healthy behaviour as a key tool in South Africa’s fight against the spread of the Coronavirus. To help us drive this behaviour change please access our toolkit. Please feel free to use as you choose, within the guidelines provided.
Citizens Assets:
https://solidarityfund.co.za/citizens-in-solidarity/
Corporate Assets:
https://solidarityfund.co.za/citizens-in-solidarity/ -
Detect
Healthcare trains converted into mobile Covid-19 testing units as the Solidarity Fund partners Transnet to save lives
The Covid-19 testing capacity in some underserviced areas in the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal will receive a boost from two Transnet healthcare trains, which have been converted into mobile Covid-19 testing stations. The Solidarity Fund, together with the Transnet Foundation and the National Health Laboratory Service have supplied testing kits and personal protective equipment to frontline healthcare staff on Phelophepa I and II, two of the Transnet Foundation’s healthcare trains. In an effort to increase testing rates for the deadly virus, dedicated doctors and nurses, with specialist training in Covid-19 testing, visited underserviced areas across KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape using Transnet’s rail network. Since 1994, Phelophepa I and II have provided basic medical help and healthcare education to vulnerable communities across the country. Each train has a permanent staff of 22 healthcare professionals, including nurses and healthcare educators. The Solidarity Fund has approved funding for 400 000 Covid-19 testing kits costing R250 million to support increased testing for the deadly virus across the country.
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Prevent
Slowing the rate of infection of the novel coronavirus, which is commonly referred to as flattening the curve, is critical to mitigating the impact of COVID-19, the disease that is caused by the virus. The primary aim of flattening the curve is to prevent COVID-19 from overwhelming public health systems and impacting the ability of medical staff to adequately attend to patients. Flattening the curve entails what is called social distancing, which is about minimising close contact between individuals. Keeping people away from each other is the only method we have currently to stop the virus and its disease from spreading. The Solidarity Campaign has been launched across all media channels, social media and citizen’s networks, to educate, mobilise and engage citizens around 'staying at home' as a core element in flattening the curve.
Detect
The world is facing an unprecedented challenge with communities and economies everywhere affected by the growing COVID-19 pandemic. As there is no cure and because the disease is highly infectious, it is generally accepted that early detection of potential carriers, and ensuring the appropriate isolation, is critical to managing its spread and the associated risk to public health systems. Testing is an essential component of effective outbreak responses. Without widespread testing, we cannot know whether a disease is spreading nor take measures to appropriately respond to it. Screening and testing are some of the most important tools in the fight to slow and reduce the spread and impact of the virus.
The Fund has also committed R250 million to support the National Laboratory Service to acquire testing equipment, and has supported the Department of Health to ensure that the 30 000 community health workers doing screening and testing have the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need to do their critical job, safely.
Care
There is no cure for COVID-19, the disease that is caused by the new coronavirus. The world knows very little about COVID-19, and providing care is, therefore, difficult and demanding. Around the world, medical professionals and frontline medical workers have been infected at an alarming rate. In many countries, these workers have died at equally alarming rates. This is why it is so critical to ensure that frontline workers have the right personal protective equipment (PPE). A key part of the Solidarity Fund’s work is to ensure that the country has access to the necessary PPE. The Fund has already intervened and helped the country secure PPE to sustain the public health system and community health workers for two months during the next critical stage of the pandemic. However, there remains an acute shortage of PPE across the world, including South Africa, and the Fund needs to continue to play a key role in securing PPE for the country.
The Fund has also committed funds to acquire 200 ventilators, which will be allocated to hospitals based on need as guided by the Department of Health.
Support
The Humanitarian Effort is one of three immediate focus areas for the disbursement of funds donated by South Africans to the Solidarity Fund.
To provide accelerated aid for South Africa’s most vulnerable households and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Humanitarian Effort will focus on promoting human welfare through augmenting the efforts of government and business to enhance the households’ ability to cope through the pandemic – through sustaining access to food, care and other interventions to alleviate the impacts of economic disruption.
To achieve this, the Solidarity Fund is continuously engaging with multiple civil society groups and government partners to understand where the country’s most pressing needs are for intervention. This is bolstered through analysis and assessment.
Food
The Fund’s first Humanitarian disbursement, announced on 18 April 2020, took the form of a R120 million donation to provide emergency food relief to over 250 000 distressed households across South Africa.
The food parcels, which will provide a family with food essentials for a two to four weeks (depending on the size of the household), will be delivered during the lockdown period as emergency food relief for vulnerable households experiencing severe food insecurity. This short-term, immediate relief intervention will allow time for the more systemic government grant solutions to take effect/come on stream.
The Fund, which is an independent organisation, seeks to augment existing civil society and government efforts. Distribution of the parcels will be done through a range of partners to optimise national coverage and impact, as shown below:
- 25% through the Department of Social Development’s 235 Community Nutrition and Development Centres (CNDCs)
- 50% through large national food distribution non-profit organisations that have expansive reach across the country
- Food Forward South Africa
- Afrika Tikkun
- Islamic Relief
- Lunchbox Fund
- 25% through a range of community-based organisations and faith-based organisations at provincial and local level. These include, but are not limited to, the South African Council of Churches, C-19 People’s Coalition, Hope Africa, Community Chest, SA Youth Movement, Rural Democracy Trust, Inqaba Yokulinda, and Hlanganisa, among others. A full list of partners will be published shortly.
Food relief is being provided through food parcels and vouchers.
Disclaimer: The Solidarity Fund’s focus is on identifying health and humanitarian risks and to coordinate activities or fund initiatives that augment and support the work of government and other social partners. The Fund does not accept unsolicited grant applications or provide direct relief to individuals or organisations.
