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Department: Educationprogramme to cater for ICT related pressures and accruals during the adjustment period. The outer years show an increasing growth in budget provision. Transfers and subsidies increased from R2.322 billion in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R3.172 billion in 2024/25. In 2025/26 the budget grows slightly by 0.8 per cent to R3.199 billion and continues to show a positive growth in the outer years. The budget mainly caters for subsidy in respect of pro-poor intervention programmes such as norms and standards for school funding in Public Ordinary Schools as well transfer feeding to deserving schools . Expenditure on Capital Assets increased from R1.809 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R12.784 million in 2024/25, whilst the budget declines by 85.9 per cent in 2025/26 due to reprioritization of funds to Goods and Services for agricultural implements and seeds No major acquisition is anticipated over the years. 348