Barbara Creecy is Gauteng MEC for finance. BUSINESS DAY TV: The Gauteng government says it will spend more than R250bn over the next three years to ensure access to higher quality public education and better healthcare services. This was announced by the province’s MEC for finance, Barbara Creecy, in her medium-term budget policy statement, and she joins us now in the News Leader studio. Barbara … those were the headline-grabbing sectors, I suppose, healthcare and education, but we don’t have particularly good outcomes in either education or healthcare and our question is: Wouldn’t it be better to spend all that money on infrastructure development which is more job creating than education or healthcare? BARBARA CREECY: The Gauteng education department is one of the best; in fact, it is the best-performing department in the country. Over 75% of learners who start in Grade 1 make it through until matric. We also find that, of the remaining 25%, almost 20% go on to either two-bit colle...
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