ORANGE MASK CAMPAIGN GARNERS SUPPORT

The Active Citizen’s Movement (ACM) recently hosted ‘Orange Mask’ public awareness campaigns in the CBD and at the traffic circle in Hayfields, drawing attention to growing calls from civil society that the government deal decisively with corruption.

The Orange Mask Campaign (OMC) is an initiative of the ACM- Active Citizens Movement, supported by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF) and endorsed by the Coalition of the Poor and several other civil society organizations nationwide.

This campaign is in response to the recent moral call by the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and several foundations and is part of the larger national call to action to support the #Stopc19corruption campaign.

The OMC commenced on August 21 2020 in KZN and has since spread nationwide. Currently, over 63 Civil Service Organizations and Foundations have joined the Campaign. The symbolism of both the colour ORANGE and the apparel MASK in relation to the campaign as follows:

ORANGE- The colour orange is symbolic of the traditional colour of the uniforms that convicted prisoners are clothed in for easy identification. By using the colour orange in our campaign we are sending a clear and unequivocal message to the perpetrators of corruption of our intention to see them duly charged, prosecuted and convicted. We want to see them clothed in an Orange Jumpsuit.

MASK- The campaign involves highlighting and bringing into the public domain the outrageous and brazen theft, plunder and looting of funds allocated for the fight against Covid19. Under cover of the Mask, over R5 billion of Covid-19 funds have been subjected to some sort of graft or the other.