The Gauteng provincial government will spend more than R250bn over the next three years on improving education and health‚ finance MEC Barbara Creecy said. Creecy tabled her medium term budget policy statement and the 2016-17 adjustment budget in the Gauteng provincial legislature on Tuesday morning. She outlined Gauteng’s approach to fund provincial priorities as reflected in premier David Makhura’s programme of radical transformation‚ modernisation and re-industrialisation. Education will be allocated about R128.7bn in the next three years. "This will finance 2.3-million learners in the public schooling system. This [includes] 1.2-million learners at no-fee schools‚ 42,000 learners in special schools and 141,000 ... grade R learners‚" she said. Provincial government will spend R600m on bursaries‚ learnerships and internships‚ which will benefit thousands of learners‚ particularly from poor families‚ across the province. The provincial government will also spend R127.2bn on health ...
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