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| Jan 27, 2026 | Outa warns homeowners against rushing to register rooftop solar | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has urged South African households with rooftop solar installations not to rush into registering their systems with Eskom or local municipalities, warning that the current regulatory environment is ... |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Outa seeks to drive final nail into e-tolls coffin | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has launched fresh legal action in the high court in Pretoria, seeking an order that roads agency Sanral has effectively abandoned its e-tolls debt claims against thousands of motorists and business... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Eskom vs solar users: Outa slams costly compliance rules | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has asked homeowners and businesses who have private solar installations to pause any plans to register their systems with energy regulator Nersa until Outa and Eskom resolve an ongoing dispute.
Esk... |
| Jul 7, 2025 | Court battle brewing over contentious Joburg CCTV by-law | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is taking its fight against the City of Johannesburg’s controversial new by-law regarding CCTV cameras to court.
The by-law, which was introduced in February, demands that city residents must regist... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | South Africa's Digital Migration Crisis: A Looming Blackout | In the heart of South Africa, a storm brews over the digital migration project. The transition from analogue to digital television has become a quagmire, ensnaring millions in uncertainty. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has stepp... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Outa wants probe into botched digital migration project | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is getting involved in South Africa’s long-running and disastrous migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television.
The civil society lobby group wants parliament to launch an investigation... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | South African electricity prices have doubled since Covid | It’s something of a relief that the Eskom electricity price increases approved by energy regulator Nersa are not as high as initially feared. However, the increase of 12.74% from 1 April 2025 (followed by 5.36% in 2026 and 6.19% in 2027) co... |
| Nov 5, 2024 | ‘South Africa can’t afford this’: Eskom price hike plan under fire | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has made a submission to energy regulator Nersa opposing the huge price increases sought by state-owned energy producer Eskom.
Outa said Eskom’s proposal would lead to a 66% price hike over three ye... |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Nationwide AARTO rollout days away, claims department | With AARTO rollout nationwide supposedly set for this coming Monday (1 July 2024), we wonder if they department has its affairs in order. Image: File/OUTA/Fotor
Following years of delays and repeated court action, AARTO rollout is set to ta... |
| Apr 19, 2024 | South Africa’s grim legacy of load shedding | In 1994, apartheid ended and the ANC won South Africa’s first-ever democratic elections, promising “Electricity for All” as part of its Reconstruction and Development Programme.
Back then, only 36% of all South Africans had electricity in t... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | DA joins the chorus of calls for e-toll debts to be scrapped | E-tolls have finally been scrapped but government says historical debt still needs to be settled. Image: X/@DA_GPL.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has joined the chorus of those calling on the National Department of Transport to wr... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Nzimande takes action: Dissolves NSFAS board amid institution’s challenges | Minister Blade Nzimande Dissolves NSFAS board amid institution’s challenges. Image: Facebook/Nsfas/X/@HigherEducation
Higher Education Minister Dr. Blade Nzimande has initiated significant changes at the National Student Financial Aid Schem... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | E-toll gantries and e-tags to get a new lease on life | A toll gantry on the N1 in Gauteng. Image: JMK (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga on Wednesday confirmed that Gauteng’s e-toll programme will come to an official end at midnight on Thursday, 11 April, meaning that road use... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | How Outa waged a protracted war on e-tolls – and won | Outa CEO Wayne Duvenage
Outa was founded in March 2012. At the time, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance – as it was known originally, before a 2016 name change – was focused exclusively on halting government’s decision to introduce e-... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | ‘Sanity prevails’: Outa welcomes scrapping of e-tolls | E-tolls will finally be scrapped in April. Image: X/@DA_GPL.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has welcomed the scrapping of e-tolls from 11 April.
“This victory should send a significant message to the government that they should n... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | E-tolls scrapped – the gantries are coming down | Government has officially scrapped e-tolls, according to a proclamation in the Government Gazette published on Thursday.
The gazette, signed by transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga, scraps e-toll gantries on Gauteng highways – and the much... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Are Gautengers still liable for e-toll DEBT in 2024? | The Organisation for undoing tax abuse says it will support any motorist with e-toll debt in 2024. Image: File
Anyone who receives a summons to pay e-toll debt in 2024 will have the full support of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA).... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Good riddance: Cape Town to reject delayed AARTO laws anyway | The Western Cape was always going to reject delayed AARTO laws anyway. Image: File/Outa/Fotor
Cape Town was set to reject delayed AARTO laws anyway, even though they’re already mired in bureaucratic confusion. In July last year, the ConCour... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | The REAL reason why AARTO traffic rules have not gone ahead | Phase two of the AARTO traffic rules rollout has been postponed indefinitely. Here’s why. Image: File
Controversial AARTO traffic rules featuring a points demerit system were supposed to go live on 1 February 2024. However, the deadline for... |
| Jan 14, 2024 | STUDENTS set ultimatum over NSFAS mismanagement | Students set ultimatum over NSFAS mismanagement. Picture: File/Fotor.
South African student organisations have set an ultimatum to the Higher Education Minister over NSFAS mismanagement. Tomorrow – Monday 15 January 2024 – is the payment da... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Students pooh-pooh Nzimande’s proposed FEE increase | Students have pooh-poohed Blade Nzimande’s proposed fee increase. Picture: File/iStock/Fotor.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s proposed fee increase has been rejected by the South African Union of Students (SAUS). The announcement... |
| Jan 8, 2024 | TROUBLE brewing amid NSFAS corruption allegations | NSFAS corruption allegations have been raised by OUTA. Picture: File/Fotor.
In a fast-moving story, NSFAS corruption allegations were made last week by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA). Today, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has signa... |
| Jan 7, 2024 | SACP denies receiving kickbacks from NSFAS service provider | SACP Secretary-General Solly Mapaila. Image: @SACP1921
The South African Communist Party(SACP) has rubbished of receiving any kickbacks as as claimed in a damning 51 page report by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA).
SACP AGAINST COR... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | OUTA: SA’s Gazprombank and nuclear procurement plans ‘dubious’ | OUTA questions SA’s Gazprombank and nuclear procurement deals. Picture: File/Fotor.
SA’s Gazprombank and nuclear procurement plans announced in December 2023 are ‘dubious’ says the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA). According to Enginee... |
| Nov 2, 2023 | DA welcomes civil society support for dissolution of the Joburg Council | DA seeks to collaborate with civil organisations to dissolve Joburg Council. Photo: DA/ web
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has welcomed the call by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and OUTA, amongst others, for urgent action to dissol... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Back to my roots: An expat’s call to change the future of SA | DA Abroad protest Dec 2011
Image by Hayley
I stood among the poorest of the poor, crudely constructed shacks each housing six or more fellow South Africans. A far cry from the bustling streets of London where I have lived for the past 15 ye... |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Warning: These are the AARTO offences that will land you in court | AARTO offences that will land you in court. Picture: OUTA
The list of more stringent AARTO offences was upheld in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday 12 July 2023, paving the way for their implementation on 1 July 2024.
Click on “query my... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Nzimande defends NSFAS payment system | Higher Education Minister Dr Blade Nzimande introduces NSFAS Mastercard. Photo: Dr Blade Nzimande/ Facebook.
Higher Education Minister Blaze Nzimande, has praised the new direct payment system recently implemented by the National Students F... |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Aarto: ‘Valid and constitutional, but still impractical’ | The constitutional court has found that the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (Aarto) is constitutional after all.
The apex court today overturned an order of the high court in Pretoria, which had found Aarto to be un... |
| Jul 12, 2023 | BREAKING: Constitutional Court declares AARTO Act valid | A traffic officer pulls over a speeding motorist. Photo: AARTO.
The Constitutional Court declared the AARTO Act constitutionally valid on Wednesday morning.
OUTA BELIEVES THE ACT INFRINGES ON THE RIGHTS OF DRIVES AND OWNERS OF VEHICLES
On W... |
| May 8, 2023 | Haibo! Will the SABC now charge car radio licence fees? | The ANC is standing firm on its plan for the SABC to eliminate TV licences and rather introduce a new tax. Watch this space! Image via Twitter @imaginetsa
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has refuted claims that it will now... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Electricity state of disaster scrapped | Less than two months after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa had declared a state of disaster (SOD) to deal with its energy supply crisis, the SOD has been scrapped.
Both trade Solidarity and civil society grouping the O... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Fury as Eskom escapes scrutiny over dodgy spending | South African civil society groups criticised Eskom’s exemption from reporting irregular spending in its annual financial statements, saying the move raises concerns about rampant corruption at the state-owned power utility.
National treasu... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday, 9 March 2023 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday, 9 March 2023 Photo: Facebook/GoogleMaps
We’ve got all the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa you really need to know on Thursday, 9 March 2023.
According to Arthur Cr... |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Outgoing Minister Mbalula leaves the driving licence system in CHAOS | Outgoing Minister Mbalula leaves the driving licence system in CHOAS Photo:@TrafficRTMC / Twitter and GCIS / Flickr
Outgoing transport minister Fikile Mbalula is taking up the ANC’s secretary-general role, and he will be replaced in the min... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | Ramaphosa’s reshuffle: a bloated cabinet that looks set to underperform | The author, Outa’s Wayne Duvenage
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) had hoped to see the back of Gwede Mantashe, Bheki Cele, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Blade Nzimande and Ebrahim Patel, who have largely performed poorly. Instead, we ge... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Mbalula shuts down rumours that fuel levy increase will fund e-tolls | Minister of Transport says OUTA and AA are just rumour-mongering when it comes to speculations of the fuel hike to cover e-tolls. PHOTO: Twitter/@MbalulaFikile
There have been speculations of a possible fuel levy increase to cover the Gaute... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Surely not? Huge petrol price decrease could be derailed – by E-TOLLS! | A possible plot to raise the fuel levy during the September petrol price decrease has riled OUTA – Photo: Turnpike / Flickr
Those ghastly gantries of Gauteng may come back to haunt us all once more. The unpopular e-tolls have cost SANRAL de... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | JUST IN: Dudu Myeni pleads guilty for naming Zondo Commission witness | Photo:: GCIS
Former South African Airways (SAA) Chairperson Dudu Myeni has pleaded guilty to charges of defeating the ends of justice for revealing the name of a protected witness at the State Capture Commission of Inquiry.
Myeni’s legal co... |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Government makes progress in bid to extradite Gupta brothers | Photo: Flickr / Damanpreet Singh
The South African government has made some strides in its attempt to have the Gupta brothers extradited, so says Justice Minister Ronald Lamola.
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OUTA: ‘Gupta arrests welcome – now for successful ex... |
| Jul 20, 2022 | Gupta arrests: No extradition request made by SA yet – Lamola | Minister Ronald Lamola. [Photo: GCIS]
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has revealed that South Africa is yet to make an official extradition request for the Gupta brothers Rajesh and Atul. The Guptas were arrested by authorities in the United... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | South Africans could pay more than R26 per litre in July – if R1.50 fuel levy reprieve isn’t extended | South Africans could pay more than R26 per litre in July. Photo: Pixabay.
Another month, another petrol increase – the fuel levy reprieve introduced by the government in April, May and June is expected to be halved in July. This means the c... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Petrol price: MONSTER R2.50-per-litre increase coming to SA in July | Petrol prices are now surging towards R30-per-litre in South Africa – Photo: Stock Image / Pixabay
The mere act of surviving in South Africa feels more like an extreme sport with each passing day. As living costs soaring across the board, i... |
| May 20, 2022 | Fuel price latest: Extended relief on fuel levy needed | Calls for the general fuel levy reduction to be extended. Image: Pixabay
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has called on Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana to extend the R1.50 per litre temporary reduction of the general fuel lev... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | 1,000 things can lead to your licence being suspended from next month – these are worst | (Photo by Gallo Images/Jacques Stander)
South Africa's new national demerit system for driving offences will be rolled out in phases starting on 1 July.
All motorists will start with zero points and receive demerits for approximately 1,000 ... |
| May 2, 2021 | Petrol prices in South Africa are at an all-time high – and taxes siphon 65% from every litre sold | Photo: Pixabay
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Only 35% of the price you pay at the pump is for fuel. The rest of the cost of petrol goes towards taxes and levies.
In the 2020/21 financial year, a quarter of the petrol price was allocated to the General Fuel Levy,... |
| Jul 17, 2017 | Outa lays treason charges against Faith Muthambi | |
| Jan 26, 2016 | Outa to brief parliament on alternative mechanisms for financing e-tolls | |
| OUTA: ‘Gupta arrests welcome – now for successful extradition’ | Ajay and Atul Gupta. Photo: Flickr / Damanpreet Singh
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) says it welcomes the arrests of the two Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh.
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