Financial and Fiscal Commission

Independent constitutional body. We tell Parliament what happens to South Africa's 🇿🇦 money. Analysis · Recommendations · Fiscal Matters podcast.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

The City of Cape Town is in the grip of an Orange Level 6 storm warning right now — gale-force winds, flooding roads, and heavy rain expected through Tuesday. Scenes like these underscore why disaster-resilient planning and forward-looking budget allocation matter.
Fiscal preparedness is not optional. It saves lives and livelihoods.
@FFC_SA #CapeTownFloods #ClimateResilience #WesternCape

[PMG @PMG_SA]

The @Fiscal_Comm_RSA made 17 recommendations in its submission on the 2027/28 Division of Revenue

The government must respond to the Commission’s recommendations and the extent to which they will be implemented at the tabling of the annual National Budget in February 2027

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

South Africa's children deserve fiscal systems that work for them. The @Fiscal_Comm_RSA is proud to formalise this partnership with @UNICEF_SA to advance sound public financial management in service of every child's rights. Equitable resource allocation is not an aspiration, it is a constitutional imperative. 🇿🇦

[UNICEF South Africa @UNICEF_SA]

The best investment a country can make? Its children.

UNICEF South Africa & the Financial & Fiscal Commission are joining forces to make public funds more efficient.

The goal: delivering real results #ForEveryChild's health, nutrition, education, safety & access to clean water.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

@JohannesWedenig @ThrivingwithDoc @UNinSouthAfrica @UNICEF_SA Proud to formalise this partnership. Fiscal sustainability and children's rights are inseparable, where resources go, futures follow. The FFC remains committed to evidence-based recommendations that ensure public investments deliver for every South African child.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

@geordinhl Mr Mayor 228 Main Rd still has no electricity for straight 4 days now. Ref 9122351047
Kindly intervene.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Equitable shares and allocations across all three spheres of government depend on timely and correct statistics. The FFC's Division of Revenue recommendations are only as sound as the data underpinning them. When statistics are underfunded, fiscal decisions affecting millions of South Africans are made on shaky ground.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

For private capital to unlock SA's infrastructure potential, the framework must match the ambition. @FFC_RSA's 2026/27 #DivisionOfRevenue submission calls for a unified PPP framework — replacing the fragmented approach that has seen new PPP transactions decline. Clarity attracts investment. #InfrastructureSA

[Nombeko Patience Mbava PhD(Stel)🇿🇦 @ThrivingwithDoc]

@City_Press My late mother loved City Press until her final days. Sunday mornings meant one thing - finding her a copy, no matter how far I had to search. If she were still with us, this news would have devastated her.
Thank you for decades of stories .

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

A reflection worth holding today: across South Africa, women perform the majority of unpaid care work - raising children, caring for the elderly, holding families together. This labourforce does not appear in GDP, yet without it no economy functions.Recognising the fiscal value of care is part of building an equitable society.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Happy Mother's Day.
To the mothers who carry households, communities, and our economy — thank you. Your care, leadership, and resilience sustain South Africa every single day.
The Financial and Fiscal Commission honours you.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

@MakulaaaT The unbundling of Eskom - will it make a difference?

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

𝐑𝟐.𝟏𝟐 → 𝐑𝟑.𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫.
That is what a South African household tariff looks like since NERSA's 8% increase and the average 15% municipal markup added on.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐛?

Municipal revenue depends on electricity sales. Households are reaching the ceiling.
The fiscal squeeze on local government is no longer theoretical.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞?

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

@BuddyWells1 The amount owed to Eskom is staggering

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Youtube link here https://t.co/MTuFz8gt1T

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

We were at Parliament today. 🏛️
The FFC briefed the @FinanceCluster Standing Committee on Appropriations on our recommendations on the 2026 Appropriation Bill.
Parliament must appropriate R 1.2 trillion to government departments — and by law, they must consider the FFC’s recommendations before doing so.
Watch 👇
@MmusiMaimane @ParliamentofRSA
#AppropriationBill2026 #FFC #FiscalMatters

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

We were at Parliament today. 🏛️
The FFC briefed the @FinanceCluster Standing Committee on Appropriations on our recommendations on the 2026 Appropriation Bill.
Parliament must appropriate R 1.2 trillion to government departments — and by law, they must consider the FFC’s recommendations before doing so.
Watch 👇
@MmusiMaimane @ParliamentofRSA
#AppropriationBill2026 #FFC #FiscalMatters

[Finance-Cluster @FinanceCluster]

The Standing Committee on Appropriations during a briefing by the @Fiscal_Comm_RSA and the Parliamentary Budget Office on the 2026 Appropriation Bill. @ParliamentofRSA

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

🧵 THREAD | The Special Appropriation Bill 2026 is before Parliament. Here is what government is asking to spend - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬👇
#FFC #Appropriations #DivisionOfRevenue #FiscalEquity

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Public infrastructure investment is critical. The reality is that we have failed to focus on infrastructure delivery, maintenance and rehabilitation. We support funding for reconstruction and rehabilitation of provincial infrastructure damaged by rainfall, flooding, thunderstorms.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Parliament is being asked to approve R1.2 trillion for government departments.
That is R1 200 000 000 000.
The question is not whether the money will be spent.
Most of it will be.
The question is whether anything changes when it lands.
Next week the FFC makes its recommendations on the Appropriation Bill.
The FFC will tell Parliament what we find.

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Parliament is being asked to approve R700 million for Sentech to keep its operations running.
Sentech is the state company that transmits public broadcasting signals — radio and television — across South Africa.
#Sentech #Broadcasting #SpecialAppropriationBill #FFC @FFC_SA

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

🧵 THREAD | The Special Appropriation Bill 2026 is before Parliament. Here is what government is asking to spend - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬👇
#FFC #Appropriations #DivisionOfRevenue #FiscalEquity

[Financial and Fiscal Commission @Fiscal_Comm_RSA]

Parliament is being asked to approve R1 billion for South Africa to buy shares in the International Finance Corporation - the World Bank Group.
This is South Africa maintaining its seat at the table of global development finance.
#WorldBank #IFC #SpecialAppropriationBill #FFC @FFC_SA