It has been a year since the solidarity fund was established to raise much-needed funds to support the country’s COVID-19 mitigation strategies and it's already bearing fruit.
According to the Solidarity Fund, the Health Department had made a request to a consortium of donors seeking funding for technical assistance to the national and provincial departments.
The Police ministry said that since the start of the pandemic, there has been a significant increase in gender-based violence cases.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to persist in many countries around the globe, the World Health Organization has launched the COVAX programme to speed up the search for an effective vaccine and South Africa wants in on that.
Anonymous donors gave up R4.6m of their pay, while a range of companies, including mining houses, a bank and a retail group made up the rest of the top ten payroll donations, according to the Solidarity Fund.
The Solidarity Fund has received donations from more than 2,700 companies and foundations locally and abroad as well as from more than 300,000 ordinary South Africans.
The fund was launched in March, just two weeks after the idea was first mooted, with R150 million in seed money from the government.
The fund has so far allocated R2.2 billion to various projects.
High commissioner Nigel Casey was at a signing ceremony together with Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Nomalungelo Gina in Pretoria on Monday.
Sentra Kem CCs has agreed to pay more R15,785.03 to the Solidarity Fund.
These will come in handy as the country prepares for the second COVID-19 wave over the next few months.
The unit said the graft complaints related to the manufacturing of face masks, the distribution of food parcels and awareness campaigns.
The fund was established by government to support initiatives aimed at fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
The party has answered President Cyril Ramaphosa's call for organisations, businesses and individuals to contribute to the fund, which will support government's efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Added to its exco taking salary cuts from this month, Old Mutual is also making R4 billion worth of cover available to over 400,000 healthcare workers.
In a statement, Oppenheimer said that she and her daughters thought long and hard about where they could make the greatest difference and decided to support the humanitarian needs of everyone living in South Africa.
The organisation said it heard the call of President Cyril Ramaphosa to assist the poor during the 21-day lockdown period.
The fund, kick-started by donations of R1 billion each from the Rupert and Oppenheimer families, is intended to help mobilise business and civil society to back government efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.
