Limpopo budget ‘remains unchanged’ - Mahoai
Limpopo Finance MEC Kgabo Mahoai says the revision to the national budget had no impact on his previously tabled provincial budget.
Mahoai tabled this original budget in March.
The R86 billion allocation from National Treasury and an additional R2 billion from provincial revenue collection remain unchanged.
On Tuesday, Mahoai re-tabled the R88 billion budget for the 2025/2026 financial year at the provincial legislature in Lebowakgomo.
The most significant share of the provincial budget still goes to the Department of Education, which received R42 billion, followed by Health, which received R26 billion.
"This is a revised budget based on what happened at national," Mahoai told MPLs.
"The impact of the national revision did not affect our baselines. So, we were not affected by anything that transpired, but according to the law, we still have to re-table it."
The provincial budget was re-tabled after Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana recently revised the national fiscal framework.
According to the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), provinces must re-table their annual budgets within two weeks of the national budget presentation.
"If it were not our law, we would have proceeded business as usual. So, there is nothing else than the fact that whatever changes, revisions, didn't affect our baselines, didn't affect our allocations at all," the MEC added.
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