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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 …
Today National Treasury announced it is bailing out the failed Ithala state-owned company (SOC) with R2.2 billion and OUTA is concerned. Ithala SOC Ltd is an entity wholly owned by the Ithala Development Finance Corporation Ltd (Ithala DFC) which, in turn, is an SOC wholly owned by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, managed through the KZN …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has reviewed the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities’ (AMEUs) recent position paper on safety compliance for Small-Scale Embedded Generation installations under 1 MVA. Public and electrical workers’ safety is non-negotiable. However, the AMEU paper unfortunately contains several incorrect interpretations of legislation and introduces requirements that fall well outside the …
The 2025 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) presented by Minister Enoch Godongwana is one of the better statements produced by the Ministry of Finance in many years. It reflects encouraging signs of an improving economic environment, with stronger revenue collections, a reduced debt-to-GDP ratio, and savings on debt-service costs showing indications of stabilisation and a …
Former CEO and director the City of Joburg Property Company (JPC) Helen Botes says she did nothing wrong at JPC and, if she did, it was as the CEO and not as a director. Botes said this in her plea outlining her defence in response to OUTA’s legal action against her, which calls on the …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes government’s recognition that the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) system is not ready for implementation, following Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy’s announcement that the rollout will be postponed to July 2026. “This delay was inevitable,” says OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage. “AARTO was never ready, not in …
Today OUTA releases its 7th annual Parliamentary Oversight Report, titled The Review Nobody Escapes. The 2025 edition shines a bright, persistent light on how effectively South Africa’s 7th Parliament is fulfilling its constitutional duty to hold the executive to account. This year’s report draws on insights derived from the ParliMeter dashboard, developed by OUTA, the Parliamentary …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes Eskom’s decision to ease the costly red tape around residential solar and battery energy systems, which is a long-overdue step toward less onerous conditions pertaining to the registration process required by Eskom. Until now, Eskom required all small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) systems – including hybrid, standby and back-up solar …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) expresses its deep disappointment in the decision by the Minister of Higher Education, Buti Manamela, to reappoint Gugu Mkhize as Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (Inseta) for a further five-year term. OUTA believes the Minister has erred in reappointing Mkhize, given the serious …
OUTA says the raids on suspended Deputy Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya and Tembisa Hospital tender mogul Hangwani Maumela expose a state hollowed out by corruption from policing to procurement, and demands urgent reform of South Africa’s justice institutions. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) notes the two major law enforcement operations currently unfolding in South …
OUTA is going to court to get the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) changed so that “delinquent director” actions may be brought against malfeasant members of boards of all state-owned entities (SOEs), not only of those SOEs registered as companies. The Companies Act, which enables delinquent-director actions, applies only to entities which are registered companies. …
The SIU interim report on their investigations on Tembisa Hospital, reveals a culture of fraud, corruption and racketeering, where looters stole enough public funds to run that hospital for more than a year, but only one person tried to stop them. The SIU found nine syndicates that looted Tembisa Hospital of R2.043 billion. OUTA wants …
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has filed legal action against the South African National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) and three ministers, asking the high court to declare that SANRAL has abandoned the collection of the outstanding e-toll debts. The action was filed in the Pretoria High Court on 20 August 2025 as case number 2025-142155. …
City of Joburg council formally repeals the by-law that extended the City’s control over residents’ private CCTV cameras. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) welcomes the City of Johannesburg’s decision to repeal its controversial CCTV by-law. This comes after OUTA and the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) both launched legal challenges to stop the …
The former CEO of the City of Joburg Property Company (JPC), Helen Botes, has formally notified OUTA that she intends to defend the organisation’s application to have her declared as a delinquent director. “We’ll see you in court,” says Advocate Stefanie Fick, OUTA Executive Director. OUTA lodged a case in the Johannesburg High Court on …
This private MP’s bill aims to save us at least R287m a year, which OUTA believes would be better spent elsewhere. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) supports the Constitution Twenty-Second Amendment Bill, 2025, a private Member’s bill being sponsored by MP Athol Trollip of ActionSA, which seeks to abolish the costly office of deputy …