OUTA Podcasts
To keep you informed on all things related to OUTA's work fighting tax abuse and corruption involving South Africa's public money.
OUTA Insights: Hold your municipality accountable with OUTA's Community Action Network (CAN)
Tired of your municipality's lack of service delivery and crumbling infrastructure? OUTA created a digital platform that can assist communities to organise themselves into powerful organisations that can force real change in local government. Tim Tyrrell explains the workings of OUTA's Community Action Network (CAN).
OUTA Insights: why OUTA says the energy crisis does not warrant a state of disaster
Adv Stefanie Fick and Brendan Slade explain why OUTA is challenging the state of disaster in court. They also unpack the state of Eskom and discuss possible solutions to the current energy crisis, as well as OUTA's court challenge to stop the Karpowership deal.
OUTA Webinar on City of Johannesburg Property Valuations Increase
If you own property in Johannesburg, your property valuation is about to increase. If you missed OUTA's Community Action Network’s (CAN) webinar on how to inspect the proposed new value and how to object if it you feel the increase is irrational (more than 10%), download here to listen. We…
OUTA Insights Update on Electoral Amendment Bill
The National Assembly voted in favour of the current version of the Electoral Amendment Bill on 23 Feb 2023. President Ramaphosa has only 3 working days to either accept or reject this very important bill. OUTA's Rachel Fischer explains the implications of the latest developments.
OUTA Insights: WaterCAN's Dr. Ferrial Adam on how to protect SA's water.
Much of South Africa's water resources are under threat, and urgent intervention is needed to ensure that access to clean water doesn't become a bigger crisis than loadshedding. Dr. Ferrial Adam, manager of the OUTA initiative WaterCAN, explains how ordinary South Africans can get involved in this fight.
OUTA Insights: Karpowership FAQ's and update on OUTA's court case
Despite evidence to the contrary, Karpowerships are still being punted by some - including the minister of energy, Gwede Mantashe - as the solution to end loadshedding.OUTA's energy project manager Brendan Slade and energy expert Chris Yelland explains why this is not the case, and also gives an update on…
OUTA Insights: The role of regulatory bodies in fighting corruption.
The state capture report exposed a deep rooted culture of corruption in SA. But, says OUTA's project manager Rudie Heyneke and Brendan Slade, legal project manager, regulatory bodies can and should play a much bigger role in the fight against corruption. They should protect the people of the country instead…
OUTA insights: Andrea van Heerden explains the AARTO Concourt challenge
OUTA's Concourt case on 15 November 2022 follows after the PTA High Court declared both the AARTO Act and the AARTO Amendment Act to be unconstitutional and invalid in February 2022. Andrea van Heerden explains why OUTA needed to approach Concourt on this matter.
Eskom and the energy crisis: is this week's stage 6 a new low?
Energy expert Chris Yelland unpacks this week's stage 6. Who is to blame, can the President intervene at Eskom and what can be done in the short, medium and long term to solve Eskom's variety of problems and South Africa's ever worsening energy crisis.
OUTA Insights with Rudie Heyneke
Rudie Heyneke discusses the German prosecutor's investigation into T-Systems, one of the biggest beneficiaries of state capture at Eskom and Transnet, Salim Essa role in state capture as well as the significance of the arrests of Brian Molefe and Anoj Singh. And what about Ajay Gupta - will he ever…
OUTA INSIGHTS: CEO Catch Up with Wayne Duvenage
Wayne Duvenage argues that we don't have the luxury of waiting 20 months to see if the 2024 elections will positively change SA. But there are lots we can do as individuals to bring about change. And, he says, it's time for big business to start putting more pressure on…
OUTA Insights: What needs to happen to end the energy crisis, and how soon?
OUTA's energy project manager Brendan Slade and energy expert Chris Yelland, an OUTA energy consultant, in discussion with Ilse Salzwedel on possible solutions to the energy crisis. How can the hurdles be removed, and why is Eskom 2.0 a non-starter? What about jobs if we adopt new energy sources? And…
OUTA Insights with journalist Kyle Cowan on the state of Eskom
We're halfway through 2022, and already more than 55 days were affected by some stage of load shedding. Whose fault is it that Eskom can't keep the lights on? Ilse Salzwedel chats to News24 journalist Kyle Cowan, author of a newly published book called SABOTAGE: Eskom under siege.
OUTA Insights - Rudie Heyneke unpacks the Gupta arrests and explains OUTA's role in the investigations
The Gupta arrests earlier this week made international headlines. OUTA's Rudie Heyneke explains his investigations into the Gupta Leaks and how the Gupta brothers' and the earlier arrests of former Transnet executives fits into the bigger picture of state capture.
OUTA files legal challenge against NERSA to set aside three Karpowership licences
OUTA's Brendan Slade and adv. Stefanie Fick explains why OUTA says NERSA failed to act in the interests of South Africa. The power regulator failed to provide adequate reasons and failed to consider that the Karpowership 20-year “emergency” contracts will not resolve loadshedding but will instead tie South Africa into…
OUTA Insights - Energy expert Chris Yelland on causes and solutions for the electricity crisis
A winter of loadshedding lies ahead. Chris Yelland explains what can be done to get Eskom and the country out of this mess without building huge new power stations but rather by involving customers across all sectors, and why electricity networks are causing more power outages than loadshedding.
Johann van Loggerenberg on SARS, state capture and blowing the whistle
The lives of more than 500 SARS employees and their families were upended when the tax agency was captured. Not only did people lose their jobs and income, but families were ripped apart in what has since been exposed as part of a bigger state capture campaign. In this conversation,…
How Cynthia Simpel lost her job for trying to save SAA R256 million.
Former SAA treasurer Cynthia Stimpel tried to stop an unlawful deal worth R265m between SAA and BnP Capital, but neither her superiors at SAA or National Treasury listened to her. Then she came to OUTA and subsequently lost her job. She tells part of her story, and also shares her…
How Bain enabled state capture - whistleblower Athol Williams says why they should be held accountable
Should we only blame crooked politicians and the Zuma government for state capture? What about private companies who also benefitted from – and even enabled – the looting of the fiscus? Athol Williams, a former partner with Bain Capital, a US-based company, blew the whistle on Bain’s involvement in state…
How Parliament failed South Africa
OUTA produced two documents on how a captured Parliament effectively condoned state capture by failing to address it as it happened. OUTA's Parliamentary Engagement Manager, Matt Johnston, testified about this to the Zondo Commission. He sheds more light on how failed parliamentary oversight assisted in State Capture.