Brace yourself for a potential property tax shock: How to avoid overpaying municipal rates . Image: OUTA Brace yourself for a potential property tax shock: How to avoid overpaying municipal rates Do you own property in South Africa? Brace yourself for a potentially nasty surprise on your mu... ACCOUNTABILITY OUTA's COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK PROPERTY VALUATION Mar 14, 2023
Record shows state of disaster was declared without evidence . Image: Picture of Dr Elias Sithole: UFS LinkedIn / Picture of Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma: Flickr/GovZA / compilation OUTA Record shows state of disaster was declared without evidence Government’s own re... ACCOUNTABILITY ELECTRICITY STATE OF DISASTER Mar 10, 2023
City of Cape Town don’t overpay on property rates: check before deadline . Image: Wikimedia City of Cape Town d on’t overpay on property rates: check before deadline The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), through its Community Action Network (CAN) initiative, encourage... OUTA's COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK PROPERTY VALUATION Mar 10, 2023
A soft shuffle to a poor-performing Cabinet . Image: Wikimedia A soft shuffle to a poor-performing Cabinet OUTA had hoped to see the back of Gwede Mantashe, Bheki Cele, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Blade Nzimande and Ebrahim Patel, who have largely ... ACCOUNTABILITY CABINET GOVERNANCE Mar 7, 2023
Minister Mbalula leaves driving licence system in chaos . Image: Shutterstock Minister Mbalula leaves driving licence system in chaos Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula may vacate office for his ANC job leaving issues with the driving licence card renewa... ACCOUNTABILITY CORRUPTION DRIVERS LICENCE GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT POLICY RTMC TRANSPORT Mar 6, 2023
State of disaster: The rules that mean there are no rules . Image: Flickr/GovZA / compilation OUTA State of disaster: The rules that mean there are no rules The new state of disaster regulations appear to be intended to allow a quick contract with Karpowersh... ACCOUNTABILITY ELECTRICITY STATE OF DISASTER Feb 28, 2023
Electoral reform bill: Will the President sign it? . Image: Flickr/GovZA Electoral reform bill: Will the President sign it? The Electoral Amendment Bill is on the President’s desk for signature. It does not provide the broader electoral reform OUTA wa... ACCOUNTABILITY ELECTIONS PARLIAMENT Feb 24, 2023
Don’t overpay on property rates: check before deadline . Image: Shutterstock Don’t overpay on property rates: check before deadline The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), through its Community Action Network (CAN) initiative, encourages ratepayers to ... ACCOUNTABILITY CITY OF JOHANNESBURG LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUNICIPALITY OUTA's COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK Feb 23, 2023
A Budget to fix the evils of poor governance: When will this change? . Image: Flickr/GovZA/OUTA A Budget to fix the evils of poor governance: When will this change? After years of promises, Budget 2023 has finally produced an Eskom debt solution and made a half-hearted... ACCOUNTABILITY BUDGET BUDGET SPEECH ESKOM POLITICAL PARTY FUNDING STATE CAPTURE Feb 23, 2023
Nothing has changed on the e-toll front . Image: Shutterstock Nothing has changed on the e-toll front Despite Premier Lesufi’s comment during his State of the Province Address on 20 February that “e-tolls have been scrapped permanently in o... ACCOUNTABILITY E-TOLLS ETOLLS SANRAL TRANSPORT Feb 21, 2023
OUTA goes to court to overturn the electricity State of Disaster OUTA goes to court to overturn the electricity State of Disaster OUTA is bringing an urgent application against the government to overturn the national state of disaster in connection with the electri... ELECTRICITY ESKOM GOVERNANCE STATE CAPTURE STATE OF DISASTER Feb 16, 2023
NSFAS, what are you doing with student funds? . Image: Google Maps / NSFAS logo / Compilation by OUTA NSFAS, what are you doing with student funds? An OUTA investigation has found that the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) hired servi... ACCOUNTABILITY CORRUPTION NSFAS SERVICES SETA SETA Feb 16, 2023