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  1. Luis

    Concerns over Eskom's alleged street light switch-off in Gauteng

    Concerns over Eskom's alleged street light switch-off in Gauteng Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) CEO Wayne Duvenage has raised concerns over the impact that Eskom's alleged switch-off of street lighting in Johannesburg could have on residents' safety. Moneyweb recently reported that a...
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    Outa weighing legal options over solar power registration

    Outa weighing legal options over solar power registration The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has started asking solar power users and installers for information that could aid in potential legal action over solar registration requirements in South Africa. Outa is widely regarded to be...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom's solar registration fee exemption deadline closing in

    Eskom's solar registration fee exemption deadline closing in There are fewer than 2 weeks left before Eskom's free registration offer for rooftop solar power systems expires. Eskom and many municipalities require households and businesses with sub-100kW grid-tied and hybrid solar power...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Outa thinks new traffic fine system contract sounds like a "money-making scheme"

    Outa thinks new traffic fine system contract sounds like a "money-making scheme" The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has warned of a high risk of corruption creeping into a tender to design, build, and operate South Africa's new traffic fine system. The Road Traffic Infringement Agency...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    The duo that drove Eskom to drop its expensive solar power registration rule

    The duo that drove Eskom to drop its expensive solar power registration rule Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) CEO Wayne Duvenage and EE Business Intelligence managing director Chris Yelland deserve credit for pushing Eskom to ease its solar power registration rules. Eskom dropped the...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom's new solar rules will save households R400 million — Outa

    Eskom's new solar rules will save households R400 million — Outa Energy expert Chris Yelland estimates that Eskom's relaxation of small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) rules will save households with rooftop solar a combined R400 million in compliance costs. Effective 1 October 2025, Eskom no...
  7. RedViking

    MASSIVE harassment from SABC TV LICENCE a BIG BLOW towards wrong person

    These incompetent clowns do not stop calling me and sending sms's but I am not the person they are referring to. Someone used my number to register their licence which they are obviously not paying. I have informed the clowns to stop harassing me with calls and sms's as I am not the person they...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Lesufi's number plate lie

    Lesufi's number plate lie Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi's claim that cars spending over 30 days a month in the province need to have GP number plates is false. The Gauteng Provincial Government launched a six-month pilot of the "smart" number plates last week, over two and half years after...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    Nail in the coffin for e-tolls — Shutdown date announced

    Nail in the coffin for e-tolls — Shutdown date announced The official shutdown date for e-tolls in Gauteng has been confirmed, just more than a decade after the much-abhorred system first came into use. The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has published a government gazette...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    How much more you are coughing up per tank of petrol — 2013 vs 2023

    How much more you are coughing up per tank of petrol — 2013 vs 2023 South African motorists are paying as much as R990.40 more to fill their tank in October 2023 than they were 10 years ago. While the government's taxes on a litre of fuel are partially to blame, the most significant increases...
  11. Jan

    Cape Town might take over traffic fines from Aarto, but you'll still get demerit points

    Municipalities could avoid losing millions in speeding fines to Aarto — but you will still get demerit points Municipalities should still be able to collect fines for some traffic violations once the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act comes into effect. However...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Big questions raised over areas without load-shedding

    Big questions raised over areas without load-shedding Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse CEO Wayne Duvenage and energy expert Chris Yelland have expressed concerns over how certain areas in South Africa are possibly being exempted from load-shedding without the appropriate regulatory approval...
  13. Jan

    Outa warns Karpowerships could cost South Africa R500 billion

    Karpowerships will cost South Africa half-a-trillion rand Using power ships to alleviate load-shedding could cost South Africa R500 billion, according to the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa). After several legal and environmental regulatory setbacks, the government's plan to use Turkish...
  14. Jan

    Gordhan's department to appeal High Court ruling ordering load-shedding exemptions

    Pravin Gordhan will appeal load-shedding exemption court order South African public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said his department would appeal a court ruling that government hospitals, state schools and police buildings be exempted from power cuts. The department has “serious...
  15. Jan

    South Africa's fuel taxes from 2008 to 2023

    South Africa's petrol price nightmare Fuel taxes and profit margins in South Africa have tripled over the past 15 years, with the various levies and retail and wholesale margins now making up 45% of the total fuel price. Year-on-year fuel tax and margin increases have exceeded the consumer...
  16. Hanno Labuschagne

    Just extend licence card expiry period already — Outa

    Just extend licence card expiry period already — Outa The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) believes extending driver's licence card validity periods to eight years is a step in the right direction but isn't happy with the minister's approach to passing the necessary legislation. Transport...
  17. Jan

    South Africa's driving licence card printing machine has broken down again

    South Africa's only driver's licence card printing machine breaks again South African motorists could face further delays when renewing their driver's licence card as the country's only printing machine has broken down for the second time in less than a year. This is according to the Eastern...
  18. Jan

    Fikile Mbalula explains in court documents why South Africa's driving licence cards expire

    Why South African driver's licence cards expire every five years South Africa's driving licence cards are valid for five years because the material they were originally made from was believed to only last that long. That is according to court documents filed by transport minister Fikile...
  19. Jan

    Outa warns government could hijack fuel price decrease to pay for e-tolls

    Big petrol price drop could be hijacked with e-toll levy The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) worries that finance minister Enoch Godongwana will use an expected fuel price drop in September as an opportunity to squeeze in a levy to replace Gauteng's e-tolls. Outa warned that Godongwana...
  20. Jan

    Mbalula presenting plans for new licence card and revising five-year expiry to cabinet

    South Africa's plan for digital driver's licence cards Transport minister Fikile Mbalula has revealed that he is ready to present his proposal for a new digital driver's licence card to cabinet ministers. He said the proposal includes re-looking at the five-year validity period that currently...
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