If the numbers from last year are anything to go by, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni may not have the captive audience he needs on Wednesday.
According to leading South African marketing and social research consultancy Citizen Surveys, just over half of all South African adults aged 18 years and older watched, listened to, or were aware of his February 2019 budget speech.
“That said, it did not increase the number of South Africans who felt negative; instead, those who said that it had no effect grew by 10%. In the last quarter of 2019, the South African Citizens Survey by Citizen Surveys found that about three-quarters of South Africans believed that corruption in South Africa was on the increase.Trust in the South African Revenue Service was at its highest point in the first quarter of 2018, when President Cyril Ramaphosa took office and committed to bringing the perpetrators of state capture to task.
However, as no significant action was taken subsequent to last year’s general elections, trust in the revenue service dropped again, ending the year at 57%.Between January 2018 and July 2019, the South African Citizens Survey asked 20 800 people if they thought that withholding the payment of tax was a legitimate form of protest.
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