*Change to law would give intelligence agencies broad powers of surveillance but do little to safeguard secret funds from looting* * Civil society jo...
.*Image: OUTA *No to the forced shutdown!* We, the undersigned organisations, express our opposition to the forced national shutdown being planned b...
Picture: Shutterstock Civil society works together to guard against the abuse of political party funding * The final State Capture Commission report ...
**OUTA’s request for extended NHI deadline granted* * On 8 August 2019, the NHI Bill was tabled in parliament, following this on 30 August 2019, the P...
**OUTA asks Parliament for extension on NHI written comment deadline* * The National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill is one of the most important pieces o...
**NHI: We can’t afford to get this wrong* * * * South Africa, get involved in discussing the National Health Insurance Bill. It’s vital to your futu...
**Questions arise from SANRAL’s annual report, ahead of bond auction* * The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) believes these pertinent matte...
**Ramaphosa's e-toll talk is sheer propaganda* * The vast majority (estimated at over 90%) of the submissions by those who attended the Gauteng e-toll...
**OUTA Chairman's report: 2014/2015* * Some sixteen months ago, The Department of Transport and SANRAL decided to forge ahead with their plans to laun...
**OUTA response to Minister Nene’s budget speech* * In response to Minister Nene’s budget speech statements with regard to the e-toll fiasco, the Oppo...
**E-toll conflict prevails: panel has misread legal status of e-tolls** While the Gauteng Provincial Government deserves applause for initiating a nec...
**E-toll workshops - good and disappointing outcomes* * Furthermore, OUTA’s vindication has been heightened by the support expressed during the worksh...
**E-toll review panel misunderstands the legitimacy of civil disobedience* * At the outset, we reject the position taken by the panel that there is ‘n...
**More concerns than compliments on Gauteng’s e-Toll Advisory Panel report* * While we will require a little more time to digest the full content of t...
**One year on, e-tolls remains an embarrassing mess* * It’s called Democracy. South Africa is suffering from a power failure. No, not just that of Esk...
**Do the maths Minister: R3.65/litre is absurd* * Dipuo Peters’ statement that a further R3.65 will need to be added to the fuel levy, if indeed the f...
**Minister plays power and forsakes authority* * At the very least we were hoping that SANRAL and the Department of Transport (DoT) would acknowledge ...
— November 2014
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A prosperous country with an organised, engaged and empowered civil society that ensures responsible use of tax revenues throughout all levels of Government.
