OUTA urges Treasury to deepen spending reform, tackle corruption and reduce exposure to failing entities
• South Africa’s fiscal pressure must be addressed through spending reform, not higher taxes
• Treasury must tie funding to accountability, enforcement and measurable outcomes
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has submitted its recommendations to the Minister of Finance ahead of the 2026 National Budget, urging Treasury to entrench reform rather than shift additional burdens onto already stretched households and businesses.
OUTA says last year’s decision not to proceed with a broad-based 2% VAT increase demonstrated that credible alternatives to regressive taxation exist. The…
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Fun South African Fact: South African Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The groundbreaking surgery was carried out on Louis Washkansky and Dr. Barnard was assisted by a large and exceptional team of surgeons, nurses and technicians. One of Dr. Barnard’s assistants was Hamilton Naki, a black laboratory assistant who had worked previously as a gardener and went on to work in the animal laboratory at the University of Cape Town. He had assisted Dr Barnard with research leading to the transplant. In the apartheid days, Naki had no access to higher education due to his race. Despite being unable to access formal training, he learned from and assisted university researchers and went on to do unbelievable work.