Gauteng tables R165bn budget
Gauteng Finance MEC Lebogang Maile on Thursday presented a budget totalling R165.8 billion for the 2024/25 financial year.
Maile tabled the province's Medium-Term Expenditure Framework in the provincial legislature.
Maile said the budget will strengthen the capacity of the state to deliver services effectively and efficiently.
Culture and recreation will receive conditional grant funding for their infrastructure programmes.
"A need to maintain the existing infrastructure assets to the original condition results in the allocation of R13.8 billion, whilst R22 billion is availed to expand the capacity of existing infrastructure and provide new infrastructure assets in response to increasing demands for services,” Maile said.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Finance Department, Ncumisa Mnyani, said the Health Department struggled to stay within budget.
"Gauteng is the province that has the most tertiary institutions, so they offer services that will not necessarily get in abundance in other provinces.
"That’s what makes the challenges of the Department of Health a little bit more than what other departments are experiencing.
"There is a lot of pressure and demand for their services, which is not necessarily always accommodated in the budget.”
She said interventions are being put in place to recoup the money spent on patients from other provinces.
"The area that is still a gap is how we deal with patients that come from the continent because it is not one government, so claiming becomes tedious.”
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