R407 billion.
That is how much South Africa's government spent irregularly between 2018 and 2024. Before you count the bailouts. Before the kickbacks. Before the Lottery money that simply disappeared.
Want some perspective?
It is enough to employ every unemployed qualified teacher in this country for the next 15 years.
It is enough to build hundreds of fully equipped public hospitals.
It is enough to fix the infrastructure in every failing municipality.
It is enough to give the National Health Insurance a genuine fighting chance.
Instead, we have software licences bought for computers nobody switched on.
Properties rented for departments that never moved in.
Contractors paid in full who delivered absolutely nothing.
And after all of it, the same line at the podium:
"We don't have the resources."
South Africa is not a poor country that cannot afford to function. It is a country whose resources are being redirected while the people who need those resources are told to be patient.
But patience has a price.
And right now, it is being paid by the child in the overcrowded classroom, the patient on the hospital floor, and the family in the dark.
The money existed.
The question is who it served.
Tax is supposed to be a social contract. Citizens contribute and in return the state must provide safety, roads, schools, hospitals, infrastructure, policing, efficient services & economic stability.
Paying so much tax in SA feels like punishment for being formally employed.๐ข
R600 MILLION FOR A MARCH ON THE 30TH.
R441 MILLION NATIONAL DIALOGUE.
R500 MILLION SPAZA SHOP FUND THAT HAS SHOWN 0 R3SULTS. WE HAVE UNDERSTAFFED HOSPITALS,OVER WORKED POLICEMAN AND WOMAN.HIGH YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.
THIS THE TAX PEYERS MONEY.
@MYANC is no longer a solution.
So far, government has spent R500 million on spaza shop funding that never reached beneficiaries, R600 million deploying police to marches that may never have happened, and R450 million on a National Dialogue that didn't take place.
Why is it so easy to spend taxpayers' money with no accountability, while ordinary South Africans are expected to account for every cent?
As South African taxpayers, we should open a case against the government for misusing our money and making us carry the burden of funding the rest of Africa while many South Africans are struggling to make ends meet.
We can barely afford homes ourselves, yet our taxes are constantly increasing. It feels like hardworking taxpayers are under immense pressure, while many illegal migrants and foreigners receive benefits funded by the very taxes we pay. The government should prioritise the needs of South African citizens and ensure that public funds are used responsibly and transparently.
South Africans, at what point do we admit that we have normalised failure?
How do we accept a system where citizens can lose up to 41% of their salaries to tax, yet corruption continues to thrive, rural roads remain undrivable, municipalities collapse, and local councillors operate with little to no accountability?
Taxation without visible service delivery is not governance; it is betrayal.
This country does not lack money. It lacks ethical leadership, consequence management, and political will. We cannot keep comparing ourselves to countries like Qatar and pretending the difference is luck. The difference is leadership, planning, discipline and accountability.
South Africa deserves a government that respects every rand taken from its people. The amount of tax we are paying is just insane๐ญ๐
South Africans, at what point do we admit that we have normalised failure?
How do we accept a system where citizens can lose up to 41% of their salaries to tax, yet corruption continues to thrive, rural roads remain undrivable, municipalities collapse, and local councillors operate with little to no accountability?
Taxation without visible service delivery is not governance; it is betrayal.
This country does not lack money. It lacks ethical leadership, consequence management, and political will. We cannot keep comparing ourselves to countries like Qatar and pretending the difference is luck. The difference is leadership, planning, discipline and accountability.
South Africa deserves a government that respects every rand taken from its people. The amount of tax we are paying is just insane๐ญ๐
Paying almost 50% of your salaries to government AND still have to pay for your own medical aid, security and education is a huuuuuuuuuge RED FLAG!! @sarstax
Say No To This Abuse of Power!!
#TaxRevoltSA
It is an underrated blessing to have a healthy relationship with your colleagues. You don't have to be friends but being able to get along and work well together contributes positively to mental health. โค๏ธ
Imagine SARS paid YOU to save your own money๐ฟ๐ฆ๐
That's basically what a Retirement Annuity does, and almost nobody under 30 uses it.
Here's how it works, in plain English ๐งต
How do you guys collect over R2 trillion when there are no jobs created, factories shut down?? @sarstax
And dont speak about illicit market for cigarettes and alcohol, it boomed after Covid... Is this money coming from PAYE & VAT only???
#TaxRevoltSA