Health, education and social welfare gobble up most of Gauteng’s budget
The three departments are to receive 81% of the province’s budget of R132.4bn
Gauteng’s departments of health and education have received the lion’s share of the province’s budget for 2019/2020, with each getting more than a third of the R132.4bn allocation. Gauteng finance MEC Barbara Creecy said on Tuesday that the departments of health, education and social services will get 81% of the province’s budget. This was Creecy’s last budget before the May 8 2019 general elections. The total budget for health is R50.8bn, while education received R49.4bn, with R5.5bn allocated to social development. The department of health’s budget includes R30bn for the wage bill. R17bn has been allocated for the procurement of goods and services, which includes carry-through costs of an R1.8bn per annum commitment made by the department to pay off its accruals. About R150m has been allocated to obtain suitable office accommodation for the department following the Bank of Lisbon building fire in the Johannesburg CBD in 2018, which led to the deaths of three firefighters. The depa...
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