# FATF removes South Africa from the grey list

Date: 2025

## The fact

In October 2025 FATF removed South Africa from its grey list after an AML/CFT repair programme. [Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) later credited the government-business partnership. 2023 greylist is the parent.

## Context

24 February 2023 greylist sat as parent. Neighbouring Vulindlela is a neighbour reform. He did not sit as FATF.

FATF greylist 2023 is the parent. Business partnership 2023 is a neighbour.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

The Presidency of South Africa carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [fiscal-policy sustainability](/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability): a completed AML delisting.

## What is established and what is not

Established: October 2025 FATF exit, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later rating-upgrade coefficient from that week, or that every predicate offence was thereby closed.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He owned the repair programme. Treasury and FIC share the file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies FATF removes South Africa from the grey list, not a later speech about FATF removes South Africa from the grey list.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. FATF removes South Africa from the grey list on 2025-10-24 is not a licence to treat every later The Presidency of South Africa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average FATF removes South Africa from the grey list into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to FATF delisted. He owned the repair programme. Treasury and FIC share the file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability
- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-removed-fatf-grey-list-2025-10-24/
- https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-fatf-exit-2025