Gauteng Provincial Budget Fact Sheet

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.

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 billionis 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 11 000 homestead, community and schools food gardens.

Sustainable human settlements and improved quality of household life

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

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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