Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia receive a large proportion of their total government revenue from transfers from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Since 2010, for example, Eswatini and Lesotho have received almost 40% of their total government revenue from SACU. For South Africa, on the other hand, SACU transfers have represented a transfer of almost 5% of our total government revenue at times. This is up from around 2.5% in the early 1980s.
