Ramaphosa credits SARS recovery with boosting public finances, funding social wage

Polity Audio Articles · Oct 26, 2026 · 3m

Ramaphosa credits SARS recovery with boosting public finances, funding social wage

President Cyril Ramaphosa has credited the post-State capture recovery of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) with driving improved tax collection rates, which in turn are funding critical social and developmental programmes across the country.

Writing in his weekly newsletter to the nation, Ramaphosa emphasised that the turnaround at SARS is injecting fresh momentum into public finances following the presentation of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana…