(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information

Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa
ANNUAL REPORT
2008
Table 2: Provincial infrastructure expenditure 2007/08
Provincial infrastructure expenditure
Roads &
Transport 2007/08
Education
2007/8
Health
2007/8
Budget
Rm
%
spent
Budget
Rm
%
spent
Budget
Rm
% spent
Eastern Cape 1,885.0 100.0 552.3 76.2 849.9 92.5
Free State 932.6 78.9 251.7 99.7 206.9 128.5
Gauteng 823.7 89.1 771.1 103.2 1,156.4 97.3
KwaZulu-Natal 2,461.7 100.0 974.0 105.1 1,278.4 85.4
Limpopo 1,466.4 81.8 388.8 102.3 482.4 89.1
Mpumalanga 892.4 85.8 445.9 44.7 198.9 73.4
Northern Cape 385.8 98.4 78.3 93.0 287.7 68.2
North West 533.9 99.8 236.8 86.5 400.2 95.5
Western Cape 1,298.7 104.6 240.3 100.0 372.6 99.4
Total 10,680.3 94.1 3,939.4 91.6 5,233.2 91.6
2006/07 8,340 100.2 3,845 99.3 4,108 99.1
Source: National Treasury: Consolidated Provincial Infrastructure Budgets & Expenditure Trends: 4th Quarter 2007/08,
3 June 2008
In addition, based on analysis of their project database by the National Treasury Inter-Governmental
Relations (IGR) Unit, there are concerns that a) provincial infrastructure plans and projects
embarked on or committed to are not aligned with budgets. This is particularly the case with the
DoE, which has committed to projects during the MTEF period, which are in excess of budget by
R1,6 billion and b) that too many projects are at retention stage (particularly in the DoE). Among
the measures to address this, National Treasury has implemented the Infrastructure Development
Improvement Programme (IDIP) and, in 2009, introduced the Financial Management Grant and
the Municipal Systems Improvement Grant to modernise local government budgeting and financial
management systems, and to improve compliance with the Local Government: Municipal Finance
Management Act, 2003 (Act 56 of 2003), committing R1,7 billion over the next three years to
these programmes.
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