Morning briefing, 7 November: SARS maintenance and Children’s Day
SARS schedules morning and afternoon maintenance windows on Saturday. The service diary also marks National Children's Day and links to the constitutional-rights explainer.
Saturday, 7 November, brings two scheduled SARS maintenance windows and National Children's Day. Here is the morning service diary.
SARS schedules morning and afternoon maintenance
SARS lists digital-platform maintenance for 06:00-09:00 and 14:00-19:00 today. Its notice issued on Friday says users may experience intermittent interruptions on eFiling and its tax and customs digital platforms during the work.
At the time of this briefing, the scheduled morning window is under way. That is a statement about the timetable, not confirmation that every platform is unavailable. The notice also listed an overnight window ending at 01:30 today; it does not provide a completion report for that work.
National Children's Day
The government calendar identifies 7 November as National Children's Day, observed on the first Saturday of November to promote children's rights. The calendar establishes the observance, not the outcome of any particular commemoration.
For the background, read EBNewsDaily's explanation of the constitutional protections for children, published earlier this morning.
Sources checked on 7 November 2026. This is a dated morning service briefing, not live election coverage or a claim that scheduled work has been completed.
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