SACU has had its fair share of successes in distributing collected revenue amongst its membership. However, this continues to be a challenge to ordinary South Africans. Voices have criticised this arrangement of transfers of funding to neighbouring countries, irrespective of their development orientation (Swaziland was given as an example). As domestic development challenges in South Africa are persistent and funds at home are deemed scarcer, a way had to be found to balance the two compelling scenarios for deeper integration within SACU.