Solidarity will go to court on social security Green Paper

19 August 2021

Solidarity will fight the Green Paper for social security and retirement reform. This will lead to court action if the Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, were to continue to make the Green Paper formal legislation.

According to Solidarity, South African employees are already overtaxed and tired of paying more taxes for fewer and fewer services.

“Workers in South Africa are tired of seeing their hard-earned money being wasted by the state. At best, the state is just inefficient and clumsy, but more often funds like this and the NHI is simply an excuse for looting and corruption,” explain Dr Dirk Hermann, Chief Executive Officer of Solidarity. “Apart from the new tax proposals, the tax rate is already high, and ordinary people have to incur expenses for which they are already taxed. On top of that, tax money is still looted at a large scale.”

Solidarity’s Executive Council will meet on Friday, 27 August to discuss proposals for comprehensive plans for legal tax protest.

“It is time for taxpayers to realise their power and to stand up against a government that does less and less, but who wants to take more and more. We refuse to see how workers become slaves of the state. We are not working for government; the government works for us,” Hermann concluded.

Issued by Morné Malan, Head of Communications: Solidarity, 19 August 2021