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16 Apr 2025
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Why openHR Can Afford to Be Free

And why the payroll industry’s pricing looks a lot like the Eskom mop scandal South Africans still joke about the infamous R238,000 Eskom mop - a symbol of outrageous markups and broken procurement systems. The public was rightly furious. How could something that costs under R150 be sold for hundreds of thousands of rand? But here’s the uncomfortable part: If you think that markup is bad, wait until you see the payroll industry. Let’s talk about direct costs - not marketing, not salaries, not office plants. Just the raw computational cost of generating a payslip. read more

December 31, 2025

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VAT Threshold 2026 for South Africa

Today’s 2026 National Budget Speech delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana brings excellent news for South Africa’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The compulsory VAT registration threshold has been raised from R1 million to R2.3 million. This is the first adjustment to the threshold since 2009. For 17 years, inflation pushed many growing businesses over the old limit without a corresponding increase in real profitability. The new R2.3 million threshold finally catches up with the cost of doing business and delivers meaningful relief. read more

February 25, 2026