06 March 2012

The Outcomes Approach remains the overarching methodology which drives an impact focus, thus keeping provincial government prioritising results which it wants to achieve by identifying critical service delivery imperatives that should be focused on. The budget reflected below shows a summary of the 2012 MTEF provincial expenditure budget per department over a three year period.

Medium-term estimates
R thousand / 2012/13 / 2013/14 / 2014/15
Office of The Premier / 236 734 / 259 124 / 274 463
Gauteng Provincial Legislature / 455 000 / 470 587 / 498 188
Economic Development / 912 008 / 1 006 604 / 1 062 816
Health / 24 519 336 / 27 404 828 / 29 394 536
Education / 27 150 751 / 28 776 868 / 30 038 120
Social Development / 2 490 492 / 2 792 459 / 2 956 748
Department of Local Government and Housing / 4 737 125 / 5 108 976 / 5 453 435
Roads and Transport / 4 363 790 / 6 911 645 / 7 284 026
Community Safety / 435 946 / 477 153 / 506 007
Agriculture and Rural Development / 493 976 / 549 639 / 586 792
Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation / 392 837 / 416 737 / 441 410
Finance / 1 322 700 / 975 670 / 1 021 538
Gauteng Treasury / 428 934 / 298 175 / 319 189
Infrastructure Development / 1 371 052 / 1 543 925 / 1 633 214
Total / 69 310 681 / 76 992 390 / 81 470 482

The total budget allocated increases from R69.3 billion to R81.5 billion over the MTEF. The principles of the provincial budget are informed by the global and national context while being supported with the Outcomes Approach to planning and budgeting and include:

  • Balancing the unlimited needs with the limited resources available
  • Reducing the non essential spending and directing resources key provincial priorities
  • Improving the province’s financial situation through interventions by improving internal controls in the health sector to improve service delivery
  • Allocating resources to infrastructure projects through a readiness assessment

The following is a list of projects and programmes in relation to the eight provincial outcomes:

Quality basic education

  • The Secondary School Improvement Programme provides supplementary tuition in specific subjects and receives an allocation of R496.8 million over three years
  • Early Childhood Development receives R309.6 million in addition to the baseline over the medium term
  • R4.3 billion is allocated over the medium term for the construction of new schools, maintenance and upgrade of the existing infrastructure investment

Long and healthy life for all South Africans

  • R210 million is allocated to Health through the National Health Insurance Conditional Grant
  • R1.4 billion is made available for the Health infrastructure programme
  • R1.9 billion is allocated towards Comprehensive HIV and AIDS

All people in South Africa are and feel safe

  • The Community Safety will drive the reduction of violent crime through the implementation of the Rural Safety Plan with a focus on deploying patrollers and increasing SAPS visibility by monitoring the Co-created Policing Strategy that focuses on ten priority crimes.

Vibrant and sustainable rural communities

  • An amount of R30 million will be spent on design and maintenance of rural roads in Nooitgedacht, Rust de Winter, Hamanskraal, Winterveld and Magaliesberg.
  • An amount of R20.7 million and R63.1 million is set aside for Agri-parks and Maize Triangle
  • R18 million is allocated to 11000 homestead, community and schools food gardens

Sustainable human settlements and improved quality of household life

  • 20 Prioritized Township Programme receives R173 million over the MTEF
  • Alexandra and Evaton Urban Renewal Programme is allocated R173 million over the MTEF

Responsive, accountable, efficient and effective local government

  • The Department of Local Government and Housing will provide hands-on support to all municipalities to improve their audit opinions and coordinate the deployment technical experts in targeted municipalities

Decent employment through inclusive economic growth

  • Re-industrialisation is supported by investing R15 million in Gauteng Youth Employment Programme, R30 million in its Y-AGE programme, R15 million in its Township Hubs and R7 million in the Foundry Training Centre
  • Knowledge Based Economy is supported by the roll out Wimax project in Alexandra amounting to R4.5 million and Smart City infrastructure amounting to R15 million
  • R1 billion over the MTEF is set aside for upgrading of the following roads (Voortrekker Road; Malibongwe; William Nicol; Nederveen; Adcock Road; Intersection at Mamelodi)

Efficient, effective and development oriented public service, and an empowered, fair and inclusive citizenship

  • To promote nation building and national identity, the province will continue to commemorate national days. A total amount of R47.9 million has been made available for this function over the medium term.

Table 2: GPG infrastructure programme per category

Medium-term estimates
R thousand / 2011/12 / 2012/13 / 2013/14
New infrastructure / 4 969 394 / 5 875 346 / 5 817 220
Upgrading and additions / 730 454 / 1 097 903 / 1 126 090
Rehabilitation and refurbishment / 878 289 / 1 836 837 / 2 071 885
Maintenance and repair / 1 681 786 / 2 105 905 / 2 473 838
Total infrastructure / 8 259 923 / 10 915 991 / 11 489 033

The total infrastructure programme amounts to R30.7 billion over the MTEF. This amount includes the following:

  • R13.1 billion is allocated to the Department of Local Government and Housing budget to eradicate backlogs and ensure access to basic services and housing
  • R5.4 billion is allocated to the Department of Roads and Transport which must be utilised to rehabilitate, refurbish and maintain existing roads
  • The Department of Health receives R6.5 billion over the MTEF to complete and operationalise Natalspruit and Zola/Jabulani hospitals, upgrade nursing colleges and build new clinics.

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