afriref › Countries › South Africa

South Africa government reference data

12 series, each cited to the official source it was verified against. Currency ZAR.

SeriesCurrentIn force fromOfficial sourceLast verified
SARB repurchase (repo) rate 7 percent 2026-05-29 SARB — Statement of the Monetary Policy Committee, 23 July 2026… 2026-09-08
VAT standard rate 15 percent 2018-04-01 SARS — Tax Rates: Value-Added Tax (page last updated 14 May 2026)… 2026-09-09
National Minimum Wage (hourly) 30.23 ZAR per ordinary hour worked 2026-03-01 Department of Employment and Labour, Government Notice No. R. 7083… 2026-09-12
Public holidays (free) 26 days held 2026-01-01 Public Holidays Act No. 36 of 1994, Schedule (twelve named days) read… 2026-07-24
CPI inflation (headline, year-on-year) 4.3 percent (YoY) 2026-07-01 Statistics South Africa — Statistical Release P0141, Consumer Price… 2026-08-21
Corporate income tax rate 27 percent 2023-03-31 SARS — Tax Rates: Companies, Trusts and Small Business Corporations… 2026-07-24
Personal income tax brackets 18–45% across 7 bands 2026-03-01 SARS — Tax Rates: Rates of Tax for Individuals, table '2027 tax year… 2026-07-24
Statutory social-insurance contributions 0–2% across 4 contribution branches 2026-03-01 Unemployment Insurance Contributions Act 4 of 2002, ss1, 4(1), 5… 2026-08-08
SARB rand exchange rates (official reference) 16.2446 USD; 4 currencies held 2026-09-14 South African Reserve Bank — Current Market Rates (Exchange rates… 2026-09-14
Prescribed rate of interest derived 10.5 percent 2026-07-01 Derived from the SARB repo rate (this API's ZA policy-rate series)… 2026-09-08
VAT registration threshold 2300000 ZAR 2026-04-01 SARS - Register for VAT: compulsory registration applies 'where the… 2026-07-31
Withholding tax rates 15–20% across 4 withholding taxes — no single rate 2017-02-22 SARS, per-tax pages: Dividends Tax - 'The rate of Dividends Tax… 2026-07-31

Use it from code

# Free — the full catalogue of what we hold
curl https://afriref.dev/catalog

# Any series ($0.005 per call, x402 on Base — no key, no signup)
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/za/policy-rate

# Provenance: the fingerprint of every source cited above
curl https://afriref.dev/provenance/za/policy-rate

What makes this different

Every value above names the official instrument it came from and the date it takes effect, and we record when we last checked it. Where a value could not be verified against its own statute we do not publish an estimate — the series is simply absent. Where a question falls outside what we hold, the API refuses and explains, free of charge, rather than returning a number that looks right.