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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) - 2025/26 Financial Year Payments for Capital Assets increased from R5.361 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R21.328 million in 2024/25 mainly due to the upgrading of computer server LAN infrastructure. In 2025/26, the budget decreases by 36 per cent to R13.656 million mainly due to once-off costs for the LAN infrastructure upgrade in 2024/25. 7.4 Payments to local government by district and local government Table 6: Departmental payments and estimates by benefiting municipal boundary Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28 Buffalo City %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 2 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 (100.0)District Municipalities 35 592 36 067 38 099 41 027 40 357 40 357 48 804 53 193 55 618 20.9Cacadu District Municipality 7 066 7 766 8 017 8 630 8 621 8 621 9 921 10 435 10 909 15.1Amatole District Municipality 8 382 7 481 7 605 8 347 7 929 7 929 8 088 8 680 9 076 2.0Chris Hani District Municipality 5 959 6 447 6 356 6 772 6 704 6 704 8 947 10 089 9 649 33.5Joe Gqabi District Municipality 3 505 4 493 4 733 5 195 5 127 5 127 6 789 7 605 7 953 32.4O.R. Tambo District Municipality 5 486 4 991 5 465 5 947 6 093 6 093 8 921 10 238 10 703 46.4Alfred Nzo District Municipality 5 194 4 889 5 923 6 136 5 883 5 883 6 138 6 586 6 888 4.3Unallocated 340 340 346 294 360 885 437 209 419 833 419 934 470 381 471 026 487 649 12.0Total transfers to municipalies 375 932 382 361 398 984 478 236 460 190 460 293 519 185 524 219 543 267 12.82024/25Table 6 above shows the summary of payments and estimates by benefitting municipality boundary from 2021/22 to 2027/28. Total expenditure increased from R375.932 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R460.293 million in 2024/25. The increase is mainly due to additional allocations received for Medico-Legal interventions at DoH, the filling of new posts under the revised organisational structure, once-off costs for upgrading and maintaining computer server LAN infrastructure. In 2025/26, the budget rises by 12.8 per cent to R519.185 million, and the Head Office continues to take the bulk of the expenditure compared to the district office which have few personnel. 7.5 Infrastructure payments None. 7.6 Departmental Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects None. 7.7 Conditional grant payments None. 7.8 Transfers 7.8.1 Transfers to public entities None. 7.8.2 Transfers to other entities 785