Honourable Speaker
Madam Deputy Speaker
Honourable Acting Premier
Members of the Executive Council
Members of the Provincial Legislature
Chairpersons of Portfolio Committees
Representative of South African Local Government Association (SALGA)
Executive Mayors, Mayors, Speakers and Councillors present
Acting Head of Department
The leadership of the ANC and Alliance Partners
Veterans of our struggle
Business leaders
Leaders of opposition and other political parties
Winners of the 2011 National EPWP Kamoso Awards, who are our honoured guests today
Our built environment partners and client departments
Traditional leaders
Leaders of faith organisations
South African Women in Construction
National Youth Service participants
Comrades
The people of Limpopo
Ladies and gentlemen
On 31 May 1992, the African National Congress released a policy guideline document for a democratic South Africa titled ‘Ready to Govern’.
In this declaration and commitment to lead the country and its people, the ANC made an undertaking that “Sustainable job-creation programmes will incorporate the provision of infrastructure and skills to enhance the productive capacity of these areas as well as raise the standard of living of the people.”
Honourable Speaker
I have deliberately chosen this reference precisely because one would like us not to focus on the period I spent in the office as a Member of the Executive Council, but to listen to my maiden budget speech of the Limpopo Department of Public Works with the understanding that this is a continuation of the programmes of the ruling party, the African National Congress, and not necessarily the new programmes by the new MEC.
On this note, Honourable Speaker
Allow me to humble myself in this august house and use the provided podium to appreciate the time and space you provided us to address the leaders and the people of the province on matters of infrastructure development and government accommodation.
These words of appreciation are further directed to all the distinguished guests in this house, who have taken time-off from their normal business engagements to come and be part of this occasion today.
Hi vula tano hina VaTsonga va ku chava ku tsongola xa munhu, hi ri rintiho rin’we a ri nusi hove. Hi khensa hi vuyelela, hi ri ku dya hi ku engeta, a swi ve tano na mundzuku.
Our budget speech is presented in the calendar month of March, the month in which we commemorate the International Women’s Day and South African Human Rights’ Day. Thus we find it relevant to dedicate this budget speech to all the women of Limpopo and all the vulnerable groups whose rights remain under threat.
Our commitment to serve our people diligently, in particular women and other vulnerable groups is not new but a long time declaration in all the chapters of the liberation struggle. In the very same policy document ‘Ready to Govern’, the ANC further made an undertaking that job creation programmes should primarily benefit all people in the rural areas, especially women.
The women of South Africa have played a vital role in the liberation of our country, both as members of the ANC and as leaders in their own right. The recognition of women by the African National Congress is traced back to 1931 when the Bantu Women’s League, under the leadership of Charlotte Maxeke, became an integral part of the passive resistance movement.
This rich history of the women’s movement in the overall struggle for liberation will continue to guide us in whatever we do, especially in government. Ours is the revolutionary commitment to the creation of a united, no-racial, non-sexist and democratic society.
As we continue to observe the International Women’s Day, we will take this moment to remember and celebrate the lives of our heroines, Marie Stella Segwale-Mabitje, Sophy Mogotlane, Tembi Skosana, Martha Motswenyane, Tryphina Vuma, Flora Masakona, Tracy Malatjie and many more. Ba opile kgomo lenaka baswana ge bare mmago ngwana o swara thipa ka bogaleng.
Honourable Speaker
The Medium Term Expenditure Framework for 2009-2014 confirms that for us to ensure the protection of jobs and expansion of employment opportunities we need among others “public employment initiatives centred on public works projects and expansion of public services such as health, education and social work.”
And the manifesto of the ruling party admits that while much has been done, much still needs to be done. However, our belief is that we cannot afford to cloud the progress we made so far in the development of infrastructure and provision of public service with dark cloud of bias criticism to make us hopeless.
We need to walk tall because we have released our people from the trenches of underdevelopment and we are together on course to a better life for all. Of course we will not necessarily pre-occupy ourselves with permanent celebrations, irrespective of the degree of our victory, but we will recognise our achievements to boost our morale and create maximum hope in challenging the problems we face today and those that are threatening tomorrow’s future.
We are aware that much as we are faced with challenges that we cannot, in anyway dispute nor ignore, we are proud that our people are able to standup and confirm that Namunthla ku tlula tolo, mundzuku ku ta tlula namunthla.
Indeed today we have more school buildings, police stations, Thusong Centres, and other public services than before the democratic dispensation. It is from these observations and revelations that we at the Limpopo Department of Public Works, feel grateful to the contributions made by employees and partners in the department since 1994 under the leadership of Comrade Dikeledi Magadzi, Comrade Collins Chabane, Comrade Thaba Mufamadi, Comrade Rosina Semenya, the Late Comrade Pandelani ‘Sparks’ Ramagoma, and most recently Comrade George Phadagi. Hakunene ku tlula ka mhala ku letela n’wana wa le ndzeni.
In his State of the Nation Address, President Jacob Zuma declared 2011 as the Year of Job Creation, and the Premier of our province, Honourable Cassel Mathale confirmed our minimum provincial share of one hundred and sixty thousand in contributing to the national target.
The New Growth Path, whose main objective is to provide bold, imaginative and effective strategies to create the millions of new jobs South Africa needs, identified infrastructure development as one of the sectors that can drive job creation in the country. The Limpopo Employment Growth and Development Plan also prioritise economic growth that is primarily focused on job creation.
This consistent focus on job creation is an indication of our commitment to the Medium Term Strategic Framework for the period 2009 to 2014, which indicates that if we want to speed up growth and transform the economy we need to make the creation of decent work opportunities the primary focus of economic policies. This is guided by the manifesto of the ruling party, the ANC, which identified job creation as one of its priorities.
This implies that the Year 2011 is indeed the year of Public Works, Ndi nwaha wa mishumo; Ke ngwaga wa mešomo; Leri i lembe ra mitirho; Lo umnyaka wo mbereko. Die jaar vir werk geleenthede.
Honourable Speaker
Our intention and commitment to create jobs for our people is not necessarily a new testament in our service delivery programme of action. On 1 March 1994, on the eve of the first democratic elections, the African National Congress published a document called the Reconstruction and Development Programme which revealed the ANC’s intention to create jobs through public works programme by building infrastructure and at the same time create jobs particularly for the poor and rural areas.
It is through this determination, while we acknowledge that much still need to be done in this regard, that our 15 Years Provincial Report reflect our progress as follows: “The number of employed people gradually increased from 1996 to 2007. In 1996 we had 570 128 which increased to 818 811 in 2007.
The number of unemployed people slightly decreased from 632 931 in 2001 to 554 563 in 2007.”
Furthermore, the Statistics South Africa Report, as reflected in the Limpopo Employment Growth and Development Plan, confirms that “…there has been a steady increase in the number of jobs in the Limpopo economy, rising from nine-hundred and five thousand jobs in the third quarter of 2010, to nine-hundred and sixty-two-thousand jobs in December 2010. This represents an increase of fifty-seven-thousand jobs in the last quarter of the year.”
Honourable Speaker
Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)
With 2011 declared by President Jacob Zuma, the year of job creation, the Expanded Public Works Programme becomes very central in this regard. In his State of the Province Address, Honourable Premier Cassel Mathale announced that as a province, we are expected to create more than fourhundred- thousand job opportunities in the next nine years as part of our contribution to the national target of creating 5 million employment opportunities by the year 2020.
We are confident that the confidence that our people have always shown on us to deliver on their aspirations, will translate into practical partnerships to work together and create more jobs.
Honourable Speaker
Expanded Public Works Programme is one of the programmes expected to deliver on this number of work opportunities for our people. This programme was introduced as an interim measure to assist in freeing our people from the burden of poverty and other social difficulties which are caused by lack of employment opportunities.
Since the inauguration of the EPWP plan of action, we have clearly succeeded in creating new boundaries against poverty.
Through the programme, a substantial number of our people in the rural areas have been afforded various work opportunities and the quality of their lives has greatly improved.
During the period under review, 34 280 work opportunities were created in the infrastructure, social, and environmental sectors.
This basically means that through the programme, government was able to intervene and put food on the table of 34 280 individuals and their families.
We are also pleased to announce that, in 2010/11 financial year, more than 660 beneficiaries went through our learnership programme, gaining skills that will enable them to participate in the economy of the province, therefore contributing to its development.
Honourable Speaker
National departments with projects in the province have created a further 17 651 work opportunities and the non-state sector has reported a further 3 070 work opportunities as of 30 September 2010. Four-hundred and eighty-seven young people are currently undergoing training in various trades as part of the National Youth Service (NYS) programme.
Honourable Speaker
Sixty-eight Provincial Government officials attended the EPWP reorientation workshop. To date about 420 government officials and 157 consultant staff have been trained, which we believe will ensure that the province continue to implement EPWP in a manner that ensures we achieve our goal of job creation.
We are very proud of the gains made thus far in improving the living standard of our people through the programme and remain committed to the course of initiating other viable mechanisms to aggressively push back the frontiers of poverty.
In an effort to intensify the coordination of job creation initiatives and to ensure that EPWP Phase-2 becomes four times bigger than Phase-1, the Department of Public Works has introduced the Implementation Protocol. This protocol is an agreed framework for cooperation and coordination between the provincial government and local government. We are happy to announce that all our municipalities in the province have signed the protocols, assuring us that they will meet the target specified in their respective projects.
This effort will be complemented by a massive EPWP Campaign that will be launched in the month of May, as part of the workers month programme to promote job creation. This campaign will run for the whole financial year and will include among others a day in a week which will be observed as an EPWP Day for the whole year, wherein employees of the department and participants in the programme will wear the EPWP orange work suits. On this day we will also pay dedicated visits to EPWP projects to interact with contractors and support every worker on site.
Honourable Speaker
This is why we are confident that in the coming financial year, we will coordinate the creation of 77 505 work opportunities of which 32 282 will be full-time equivalent. We will enrol 15 768 beneficiaries into learnerships and plan to provide skills training for 66 353 beneficiaries.
We are also going to look at re-establishing the Labour Intensive Construction (LIC) Training Centre of Excellence and also provide technical support to struggling municipalities, with the assistance of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), seconded to the department by the National Department of Public Works.
As a way to measure the impact of this programme we are going to undertake impact study of EPWP on poverty alleviation and also identify and scope new areas for long term sustainability.
Honourable Speaker
One of the ways that will assist us to realise our goal and contribute greatly to the job creation target set by the President, is if all implementing bodies adopt and implement the Principle of ‘All projects are EPWP projects’ because quite a number of individuals benefit from these projects of government, but often we do not actively report on the jobs created.
Preserving our environment remains a cause that we intend to continue advocating as part of our EPWP function located in the environmental sector.
The Greening Limpopo initiative was launched by the Honourable Premier Cassel Mathale in March 2010. This is another contributor to the green economy. The initiative seeks to create seven thousand work opportunities by 2014. We are using the planting of trees as one of the major exercises to create job opportunities for our people.
We reiterate the appeal made by the Premier, to the people of Limpopo to join hands together with government in taking care of our environment, which will ensure job creation, food security and more importantly reduce the province’s carbon footprint.
Let us work together to ensure that the EPWP Phase 2 achieves its goals as we create a better life for all our people.
Honourable Speaker
Allow me at this moment to congratulate our EPWP partners, who have shown commitment to ensure that goals set for the EPWP phase 2 are achieved through the manner in which they implement their projects. During the recent Kamoso Awards, held on 7 March 2011 in Krugersdorp, the Limpopo Province scooped 4-national awards. Through your permission honourable Speaker, allow me to request the following winners to take a bow as and when I call their names: Vhembe District Municipality, Nancefield Street Paving Project, came first in the infrastructure sector; Mogalakwena Local Municipality in the Waterberg District, Land Care Project, was named the best project compared to other provinces in the environmental sector; Greater Tzaneen Municipality, from Mopani District, awarded the Best Local Municipality in the Environmental Category; and Limpopo Department of Health and Social Development, Makotse Women’s Club Bakery Project, in the Lepelle-Nkumpi Municipality, walked away with the best innovation project award under the infrastructure sector.
We are proud to be associated with people and projects who continue to prove to the rest of the country that indeed great things can come out of Limpopo. To enhance the coordination of EPWP in the 2011/12 financial year, we have allocated 20-million rand for this jobs-centred programme.
Honourable Speaker
Government Immovable Asset Management Act (GIAMA)
Over the years Public Works has learned its lessons and deriving from this rich experience, we have since realised that the key determining factor for our ability to deliver on our mandate and service our client departments is mainly our institutional capacity.
The Limpopo Employment Growth and Development Plan also acknowledges the fact that to drive faster change we need a more effective government and improved coordination and planning.
The Government Immovable Asset Management Act of 2007, GIAMA, gives us an opportunity to improve our planning, which will in turn impact positively on the coordination of infrastructure development and the provision of social services to our people thereof.
This Government Immovable Asset Management Act, enables us to provide a uniform immovable asset management framework, to promote accountability and transparency within government and to ensure coordination of the use of immovable assets, with service delivery objectives of a provincial department and the efficient utilisation of immovable assets. This Act requires us to ensure continuous maintenance of immovable assets of the state.
The Act calls for more efficient and effective management of immovable assets by government and distinguishes between users and custodians of immovable assets.
As custodian of immovable assets, the Department of Public Works took the lead in bringing on board all Provincial User Departments into a Provincial User Departments Forum, for training. We have since trained representatives of all provincial departments and compiled User Asset Management Plans for all the Departments and a Custodian Asset Management Plan for the Department of Public Works.
GIAMA gives us a clear guideline on the acquiring and disposal of government property and also the maintenance of such immovable assets. These activities will be conducted over the Medium Term Expenditure Framework cycle.
The implementation of this Act requires all of us to work together, so that our people can continue to receive services in a conducive environment for years to come.
Honourable Speaker
You will agree with me that an infrastructure is as good as its maintenance plan, and the actual maintenance thereof. The department has already piloted the maintenance strategy, which is also in line with the GIAMA requirements to ensure that the obligations of this Act are met. The Maintenance Strategy will enable our department to lead the maintenance planning of all state owned government buildings by conducting conditional assessments and the development of User Asset Management Plans which will assist the Provincial Treasury to allocate the maintenance budget. The strategy among others will create sustainable job opportunities in the province in line EPWP standards.
Honourable Speaker
In line with our maintenance strategy, the department has refurbished carpentry workshops in the five districts. These workshops will assist the Department of Education in the repairs of school desks and office furniture for provincial departments.
For the financial year 2011/12 the following are projects that the department will roll out as part of our maintenance plan:
Renovation of Vhembe District Municipal Offices and Council Chamber; Renovation of Mopani District Municipal Offices and Council Chamber; and Renovation of the Department of Education Capricorn District Offices in Lebowakgomo. We will also develop 4-hactres of landscape gardens at the Giyani and Thohoyandou government complexes, and pilot the installation of energy efficient equipment in Giyani.
In response to the EXCO Outreach and public participation feedback, we will be constructing the Mulima Traditional Council Offices in the Vhembe District and Rapotokwane Traditional Council Offices in the Waterberg District.
In order to enhance our institutional capacity and decentralise our services closer to our people and user departments, we will construct the Ephraim Mogale Cost Centre in Sekhukhune District and renovate 8-blocks of offices in various cost centres in the remaining 4 districts. This renovation programme will include the construction of 2 460 metres of fence in Lephalale, Dzanani, Nebo and Sekgosese Cost Centres.
Our assets include residential properties, and as part of our maintenance plan we will renovate 68 residential houses in all the 5 districts. When implementing the abovementioned projects the Maintenance Programme of the department will create 180 work opportunities. The allocated budget for these projects is R47 million.
Honourable Speaker
Provincial immovable asset register
The Limpopo Employment Growth and Development Plan also require us to focus on the provision of Public Infrastructure by among others prioritising the compilation of a comprehensive asset register. The plan further guides us by indicating that “Government property and land audit should be carried out so that government is better advised on the land that can be utilised.”
We are working tirelessly to update our assets register so that we can have a comprehensive Provincial Asset Register that enhances effective, efficient, economic and appropriate management of provincially state-owned immovable assets. The updated Asset Register will ensure that accurate decisions are taken at both political and administrative levels with regard to infrastructure development, economic development and social development.
Currently there are over 13 859 immovable assets in the Limpopo Provincial Government immovable asset register. Of these immovable assets:
- To date 713 are legally registered in the name of the province
- 1 828 are being processed for vesting and registration
- 4 257 are on communal land
The department has already surveyed 2 950 schools and clinics built on communal land in preparation for the registration of these immovable assets.
We have put up plans to embark on an unprecedented mission of surveying all immovable assets on surveyed communal land that are used for execution of provincial functions, such as clinics, schools, road camps and offices, so that they are all finally registered in the name of the Province.
Honourable Speaker
The Limpopo Provincial Government has also developed a Vesting Plan whereby all immovable assets that are used for execution of provincial functions will be confirmed vested and registered in the name of the Provincial Government by 31 March 2014.
Currently there are 1 828 immovable assets that are subjected to the confirmation of vesting process, with a total of 533 having been confirmed vested and registered in the name of Limpopo Provincial Government. The completion of this plan will ensure that the Provincial Asset Register is complete and comprehensive.
Honourable Speaker
The transfer of R-2-9-3 towns to local municipalities
As part of the empowerment of Local municipalities, we continue to be committed towards the process of transferring pieces of land that constitute the R-2-9-3 towns to local municipalities for them to be able to carry out their local government mandates.
Since the inception of this project, 171 R-2-9-3 towns have been transferred to affected municipalities around the province. Municipalities in need of such state provincial land are currently submitting their requests to the department and we remain committed to assist them in acquiring these assets. VhaVenda vhari munwe muthihi a u Ńusi mathuthu
Honourable Speaker
Devolved rates
In relation to devolved rates, we are quite pleased to report to this august house that in the financial year 2010/11 we were able to spend the allocated budget and requested for additional funding. It is also important to indicate that the progress we have made has prompted the national Department of Public Works to increase our budget by more than hundred percent in this regard. Thus we were allocated 15-million rand in the year under review and we have since been allocated 34-million rand in the2011/12 financial year.
We will in an effort to clear the debt owed to municipalities by the provincial government, continue to engage the Provincial Treasury, our counterparts in the Department of Local Government and Housing, and all the municipalities in the province.
Honourable Speaker
Arrear rental
We have come a long way with the issue of arrear rental, where in our residents were failing to pay rent as per the lease agreements. We have since embarked on an intensive programme of file audit, which as of today we have audited all the files of residents in our properties. We need to indicate that during this process we have realised that a lot of our residents were sub-letting. We have communicated with them about their violation of the conditions of the lease agreement. Hi ri karhi hi va tsundzuxa kuri Ximita ntsengele xi tshemba nkolo.
Honourable Speaker
Design and construction
When President Jacob Zuma addressed the joint sitting of parliament during his State of the Nation Address, he emphasised the importance of infrastructure development, stating that it enables us to expand access to basic services and quality of life.
We are proud to be the implementing department responsible for the coordination of infrastructure plans based on infrastructure needs and prioritisation of projects.
Honourable Speaker
Relocation of the legislature
After the first democratic elections, when the sitting of the provincial legislature was still held in Polokwane, Jack Botes Hall, a consideration was made to house the Limpopo Legislature permanently in Polokwane. This resulted in the then Premier of Northern Province, Comrade Ngwako Ramahlodi, and the then Mayor of Piertersburg Municipality, signing an ‘agreement’ to donate land from the municipality to the provincial government for the building of the Provincial Legislature.
In recent years the Department of Public Works has been engaged in the process of developing a theme for the legislature complex and has since completed this process.
The announcement by the MEC of Provincial Treasury in the recent Provincial Budget Speech preceded the securing of fifteen-million rand to pay the direct costs to Polokwane Municipality as reflected in the donation agreement. We are anticipating that by the end of June 2011 the land will be in the Provincial Asset Register.
We have also made progress in deciding the funding model for this massive project. By April 2011, next month, we will be calling upon investors and property developers to submit their expression of interest to design and build the legislature complex. This will be done within the recommendations of the public participation and the decision of the Executive Council.
Honourable Speaker
Partnership with stakeholders
On 30 March 2010 we opened the Limpopo Branch of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). This office is housed in the Limpopo Department of Public Works head office to enhance our partnership with CIDB in our collective effort to facilitate efficient public sector procurement and promote contractor development.
Since the launch of the CIDB provincial office, we have assisted 11 874 contractors, 10 975 being new registrations and the remaining 899 were upgrades. This partnership with CIDB has also resulted in the launch of the provincial chapter of the Excellence Awards for Women in Construction which we successfully held in August 2010. In our effort to continue giving support to women contractors, we will be continuing with this programme in 2011 and the years to come.
We are also in partnership with the Construction Education Training Authority which contributes towards training on skills programme, Adult Basic Education and Training Level 1 to 4 as at 2009/10 financial year. For the financial year 2011/12, Construction Education Training Authority has committed R15m to provide training in different trades in order to increase the skills capital of the province. We also have a working relationship in the delivery of infrastructure with the following stakeholders:
- Independent Development Trust (IDT)
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Council for the Built Environment.
These partnerships are making a great difference in the way we do our work and we thank all these partners and other stakeholders for their continued support and mutual relations. Furthermore we make a call to the private sector, especially in the built environment, to work together with us to develop infrastructure in a manner that it creates sustainable jobs.
In this way we welcome the admission by the President of Consulting Engineers of South Africa, during his address at the 2011 Infrastructure Conference, that “The construction industry, working in collaboration with the State, has to identify sustainable interventions to deal with the infrastructure challenges faced by South Africa.”
Indeed South Africa needs all of us to work together to deliver more infrastructure development.
Honourable Speaker
During the year under review we have been implementing several projects on behalf of client departments.
Department of Education
We are currently busy completing 18 school projects for the Department of Education for the financial year under review. We will be implementing 29 school projects for the 2011/2012 financial year and construction will commence in April 2011.
Department of Sports, Arts and Culture
We have completed 10 libraries in the province and are already being utilised by communities. We will continue with the construction of four new libraries during 2011/12 financial year. We will also upgrade and renovate 14-libraries across the province and build 5-new libraries
Department of Health
We have completed 15 clinics in all the districts and two hospital mortuaries in Groblersdal and Kgapane. We are confident that we will be completing the hospital revitalisation projects in Letaba and Maphutha-Malatjie hospitals by the end of April 2011. The hospital revitalisation projects in Thabamoopo hospital will be completed by the end of June 2011.
Other health projects which we will be completing in the first quarter of 2011/12 financial year, include Thohoyandou Emergency Medical Services Station and Thabaleshoba Health Centre in Steilloop.
In the 2011/2012 financial year we will upgrade 10 clinics and nine Emergency Medical Services stations in all the five districts. We will also start new Hospital Revitalisation projects in Thabamoopo, Letaba, Maphutha- Malatjie and Thabazimbi hospitals.
Department of Roads and Transport
We will be completing the construction of Aganang K53 Testing station on behalf of Roads and Transport in this financial year.
Honourable Speaker
Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme
The department is participating on Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme phase three introduced by Treasury in the province. The overall goal and purpose of Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme is to support and strengthen the planning and management capacity in the delivery of infrastructure.
With the introduction of Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme in the province, best practices methodologies were introduced which guided departments on how to prepare the Infrastructure Programme Management Plan.
It is with this understanding of the best practice methodology that the Department of Public Works is confident that it will improve on the coordination and monitoring of infrastructure projects in the province.
Honourable Speaker
We wish through this budget speech to commit to the people of Limpopo, our client departments and Premier Cassel Mathale, that this coming financial year, we will literally roll up our sleeves, wear our orange overalls and work tirelessly to ensure that the Limpopo Provincial Government indeed works. Because we believe that the Department of Public Works, makes government work as it is central in ensuring that learners at our schools; patients in our hospitals and clinics, and officials of government are accommodated and operate in an environment fit for the services to be rendered.
This is in honour of our struggle icons, giants of our movement, such as Inkosi Albert Luthuli, Oliver Reginald Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela, Charlotte Maxeke, Ruth Mompati, Sophie De Bruyn, Lillian Ngoyi, and Madinoge Mashabela, who fought to ensure that our people live, work and are treated in a dignified manner.
Honourable Speaker
Let me take this opportunity to thank the team of Public works led by the Acting HOD Mr Ramararie Naidoo for the work that they delivered in the last financial year. As we move into the next financial year, let us continue to work as a collective.
We also extend our gratitude to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works, led by Honourable Cde Joyce Maluleke. Without your guidance and support, we would not have been able to get as far as we did.
Continue to steer us in the right direction so that we indeed become a leader in the provision and management of provincial land and buildings for the benefit of the people of Limpopo.
In conclusion, Honourable Speaker
The 18 May 2011 has been scheduled for the local government elections. I would like to take this opportunity to call upon all citizens of Limpopo to go out in their numbers and exercise their democratic right to vote. We wish the Independent Electoral Commission a successful election run.
Honourable Speaker
Allow me to present before this house, the Budget Vote 9 of the Limpopo Department of Public Works, totalling 837-million and sixty four thousand rand, with reference to the attached tables summarising the actual amounts allocated to the departmental activities.
Working together we can do more!
Re a šoma!
Ha Tirha!
Ri kho u shuma!
Ons werk!
I thank you!
2011/12 and Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) budget allocations summary
Summary of receipts
|
|
Revised estimates 2010/2011 |
2011/2012 |
2012/2013 |
2013/2014 |
|
|
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
|
Source |
|
|
|
|
|
Equitable share |
733,996 |
783,801 |
819,226 |
865,514 |
|
Conditional Grant |
29,326 |
35,752 |
69,755 |
78,523 |
|
Departmental receipts |
18,730 |
17,511 |
18,830 |
18,898 |
|
Total |
782,052 |
837,064 |
907,811 |
962,935 |
Allocation per programme
|
|
Adjusted appropriation 2010/2011 |
2011/2012 |
|
2012/2013 |
2013/2014 |
|
Programme |
R’000 |
R’000 |
% |
R’000 |
R’000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PR1: Administration |
281,438 |
295,437 |
5% |
313,119 |
329,313 |
|
PR2: Public Works |
480,453 |
521,562 |
9% |
539,958 |
558,606 |
|
PR3: EPWP |
20,161 |
20,065 |
-.5% |
54,734 |
62,850 |
|
Total budget |
782,052 |
837,064 |
7% |
907,811 |
950,76 |
Economic classification
|
|
Adjusted |
2011/2012 |
|
2012/2013 |
2013/2014 |
|
|
R’000 |
R’000 |
% |
R’000 |
R’000 |
|
Items |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compensation of employees |
547,209 |
575,314 |
5% |
564,820 |
581,130 |
|
Goods and Services |
160,946 |
156,948 |
-3% |
219,141 |
236,310 |
|
Interest and rent on land |
16 |
- |
|
- |
- |
|
Provincial and Local Government |
28,254 |
47,855 |
69% |
50,938 |
53,740 |
|
Households |
5,057 |
5,300 |
5% |
8,168 |
8,728 |
|
Buildings and other fixed structures |
34,800 |
47,547 |
37% |
58,717 |
64,502 |
|
Machinery and equipment |
5,770 |
4,100 |
-30% |
6,027 |
6,359 |
|
Total |
782,052 |
837,064 |
|
907,811 |
950,769 |
