The 2025 MTBPS brings cautious optimism, highlighting progress on debt stabilisation, improved tax revenue, and reforms in energy, logistics, and water. With SA off the greylist and a new 3% inflation target in place, the focus now shifts to delivery. While growth is still sluggish and unemployment high, signs like 167 days without load shedding signal momentum. The challenge? Turning plans into action.

Taxation is not an absolute right of the state but a conditional agreement between citizens and government. When taxes serve rights, transparency, and growth, they sustain prosperity. When they become an entitlement of power, they erode trust, freedom, and the very foundation of economic progress.