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The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has submitted its final comments on governments Reviewed Draft White Paper on Local Government, warning that South Africa does not suffer from a shortage of plans to fix municipalities. It suffers from a shortage of accountability. While OUTA welcomes many of the reforms in the White Paper, it says …
Public confidence in government depends on consistent and credible accountability for ethical failures. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to dismiss Minister of Social Development, Sisisi Tolashe, from Cabinet. OUTA says the decision was necessary and overdue in light of a series of serious allegations surrounding Minister Tolashe’s conduct, …
South Africa cannot keep asking citizens to expose corruption while leaving whistleblowers unprotected. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has warned that South Africa’s proposed Protected Disclosures Bill still fails to provide the level of protection required in a country where whistleblowers are routinely intimidated, financially destroyed, professionally sidelined, and, in far too many cases, …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has raised serious concerns over what appears to be a deepening governance crisis at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), following Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela’s announcement that interim Chairperson Dr Mugwena Maluleke and board member Karabo Mohale had both resigned with immediate effect. According to …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s decision to retain fuel levy relief for May, providing much-needed short-term support to South Africans facing sustained financial pressure. While this decision adds strain to the national fiscus, it offers critical relief to households, businesses, and the broader economy as fuel costs continue to …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) notes that Mr Nelson Makgata, Technical Director of the North West Transport Investment (NTI), will appear before the North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety and Transport Management on 28 April 2026. This forms part of the Legislature’s ongoing inquiry into NTI. OUTA believes this appearance is …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes the publication of the Protected Disclosures Bill, 2026 for public comment. The Bill is an important acknowledgement that South Africa’s current whistleblower protection framework has failed too many of the people who risked everything to expose corruption, state capture and abuse of power. There are important improvements in …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has called for stronger, enforceable ethics rules in Parliament, warning that proposed amendments to the Code of Ethical Conduct still leave critical accountability gaps. In its formal submission to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests, OUTA supports the intent to improve transparency and ethical leadership, but cautions …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes government’s decision to reduce the fuel levy by approximately R3 per litre for petrol and close to R4 per litre for diesel. This intervention is both necessary and appropriate in helping to mitigate what would have been a severe price shock on 1 April. But it came too …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) notes Eskom’s decision to extend the deadline for residential solar system registration. This extension follows widespread public resistance to the registration requirement. OUTA believes this response has played an important role in slowing down a policy that lacks clear legal and practical justification. South Africans who have invested in …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has uncovered a failed R39 million sewer infrastructure project in Pomona, Kempton Park, where public funds have been spent, no functional pipeline has been delivered, and residents continue to live with raw sewage flooding their properties years after government intervention. The project was intended to resolve long-standing sewer failures …
On 20 March 2026, the Administrator for Services Seta (SSETA) confirmed what should never have taken seven years to admit: three whistleblowers had been unfairly dismissed. This finding follows legal advice from SSETA’s internal legal team, an independent law firm, and Senior Counsel. It comes just two weeks after another whistleblower at the Construction SETA …
R520 billion and counting: South Africa’s failing state-owned enterprises received more than R520 billion in government support between 2008 and 2023. Pay without performance: OUTA’s new report finds weak links between board remuneration and the actual performance of SOEs. Opaque remuneration practices: Board pay structures remain inconsistently transparent and vulnerable to political influence. Accountability gap: …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has concluded a two-year investigation into corruption risks, governance failures, and student accommodation quality within the NSFAS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme) student accommodation system, finding that structural changes materially altered how billions in public funds flow through the student accommodation pipeline on which thousands of students depend. This …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) says the 2026 Budget avoids major tax shocks and offers measured relief to taxpayers and small businesses in the same year as local government elections, but stops short of the decisive reform South Africa urgently needs. Government withdrew the previously announced R20bn tax increase and provided full inflation relief …
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 …
South Africa does not lack water laws. It lacks consequence management. South Africans do not need another promise of reform. They need functioning infrastructure, clean rivers, and water that runs when the tap is opened. The Water Services Amendment Bill acknowledges what communities have known for years. Across large parts of the country, municipal water …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) finds President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) deeply disappointing. South Africans have heard many of his hollow promises and plans before. From tackling corruption to building universities, to job creation, professionalising the public sector, and addressing procurement maladministration, the commitments sounded familiar, but implementation has …
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts is conducting an inquiry into the fund
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) believes recent threats by Eskom and certain municipalities to fine or disconnect electricity supply for failing to register their small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) systems (Solar PV) are impractical, irrational and unfair. We have also notice significant amendments to earlier supposed requirements and deadlines by the authorities, which is generating …
OUTA has filed legal action aimed at overturning the re-appointment of Gugu Mkhize as the CEO of the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (Inseta) for another five years. The action was lodged in the Pretoria High Court in December 2025, and has since been served on the respondents, Minister of Higher Education and Training …
Courts are clogged with thousands of RAF cases
OUTA is concerned by yet another extension of the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) board, which has already seen its tenure being reinstated into a second three-year stint and consequently undergone a further two-year extension beyond that. This is no longer an isolated delay. What should be a short caretaker measure has become standard …
The Transport Ministry won a court order setting aside the tender award of its own entity due to irregularities which had been exposed by OUTA which welcomed the Pretoria High Court decision to overturn the driving licence card machine contract at the Transport Ministry’s request. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes the court order …