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Department: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs7 PAYMENT SUMMARY 7.1 Key assumptions The following key factors provide the framework for the development of the departmental 2025 MTEF budget proposal: %uf0b7 The growth in personnel budget for 2025/26, 2026/27 and 2027/28 is informed by the Treasury guidelines in terms of the COLA implications while providing for pay-progression, latest wage agreement for public servants as well as carry-through salary adjustment to Traditional Leaders relating to 2023/24 and 2024/25 determination. %uf0b7 Non personnel inflationary projections are informed by the revised CPI estimates in line with Provincial Treasury Guidelines. %uf0b7 Commitment to the implementation of the cost containment measures while ensuring that service delivery mandate of the department is not materially compromised. 7.2 Programme summary Table 4: Summary of payments and estimates by programme Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/281. Administration 253 538 257 889 285 633 268 524 279 166 279 166 281 650 264 212 276 970 0.92. Local Governance 244 321 244 830 264 603 291 119 286 834 286 834 326 526 340 222 353 382 13.83. Development and Planning 97 380 105 548 110 604 128 059 118 880 118 880 139 494 130 859 137 041 17.34. Traditional Institutional Management 324 495 340 332 360 112 385 546 380 758 380 758 382 689 417 869 432 411 0.55. House of Traditional Leaders 25 660 28 673 33 877 35 277 35 324 35 324 35 361 38 401 40 012 0.1Total payments and estimates 945 394 977 272 1 054 829 1 108 525 1 100 962 1 100 962 1 165 720 1 191 563 1 239 816 5.92024/25Table 4 above show the summary of payments and estimates per programme from 2021/22 to 2027/28. Actual expenditure increased from R945.394 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R1.100 billion in 2024/25 as the department continued to prioritise its capacitation and allocating funds towards its core business of supporting municipalities and institutions of traditional leadership as well as ensuring that contractual obligations are adequately provided for. In 2025/26, total expenditure is expected to increase by 5.9 per cent to R1.165 billion due to additional resources allocated through rescheduling of funds from 2024/25 as well as normal additional funds to cater for wage agreement, the 2023/24 and 2024/25 salary adjustment for Public Office Bearers (PBOs) (Traditional Leaders) and funds towards capacitation of the Provincial Disaster Management Centre (PDMC) as well as municipal support on infrastructure. In the 2 outer years, the budget continues to grow moderately. 500