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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial Year5 PROCUREMENT The department will also continue with the maintenance of its Head Office building (Wilton Mkwayi Complex) in Qonce through the provision of plumbing, electrical and other essential services at a cost of R2 million per annum. The department will award tenders for the 2025/26 financial year to the prospective bidders to provide services for the following events: Provincial arts and culture award, Promotion of traditional music, Provincial sports awards, Commemoration of institutionalized days, Isingqi Sethu Wild Coast Festival, Moral regeneration programmes, Inkciyo, Ulwaluko at Alfred Nzo, Mbizana, Ward 24 and OR Tambo, Flagstaff Ward 29.On the heritage landscape, the department will also repatriate human remains of freedom fighters from foreign countries. Will erect memorials and statues for Steve Biko and Victoria Mxenge, Mthetheleli Ngumbela and King Phalo. The department will construct new libraries in Ntabankulu, Alfred Nzo District municipalities and in Ngquza Hill, O.R. Tambo District municipalities. Renovations will take place in Ugie Library, Pearston Library, Fingo Library and the Sterkstroom and Somerset Museums. The department will host the Library week and the Book Fair. The department will procure sports attire for schools and clubs, procure sports equipment and through service providers that provide training, assist sector associations and community clubs by providing them with training on governance, organisational planning, and sports administration skills, coaching and officiating. It will also award a hospitality tender to the prospective bidders for provision of travel and accommodation to provincial teams attending national tournaments, arts groups attending festivals, stakeholders on trips to foreign countries for repatriation of remains of fallen activists during the wars of resistance to apartheid. 6 RECEIPTS AND FINANCING Summary of receipts Table 2: Summary of departmental receipts Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28Equitable share 707 385 699 600 744 081 781 548 798 840 876 415 814 870 843 348 881 320 (7.0)Conditional grants 240 676 254 203 239 907 261 815 261 815 184 240 264 898 277 204 290 100 43.8Community Library Services Grant 169 310 181 169 169 589 182 156 182 156 127 568 187 261 195 804 204 873 46.8Mass Participation and Sport Development Grant 70 879 69 310 66 726 76 624 76 624 53 637 75 137 81 400 85 227 40.1Expanded Public Works Programe Integrated Grant for Provinces 2 155 2 056 1 965 2 058 2 058 2 058 2 500 %u2013 %u2013 21.5Social Sector Expanded Public Works Programe Incentive Grant for Provinces %u2013 %u2013 1 627 977 977 977 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 (100.0)Total receipts 940 276 961 588 983 988 1 043 363 1 060 655 1 060 655 1 079 768 1 120 552 1 171 420 1.8of whichDepartmental receipts 2 593 3 448 2 746 1 550 1 550 1 550 1 621 1 770 1 694 4.62024/25 Table 2 above provides the summary of the departmental receipts from 2021/22 to 2027/28. Equitable share increased from R699.600 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R876.415 million in 2024/25. The increased funding was mainly driven by transfers to municipalities for the functioning of municipal libraries. In 2025/26, equitable share decreases by 7 per cent to R814.870 million. Total conditional grants decreased from R240.676 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R184.240 million in 2024/25 due to low revised estimate due funds that were received later than anticipated. In 2025/26, conditional grants increase by 43.8 per cent to R264.898 million due to greater investment in libraries to change the landscape of the Eastern Cape as they are poorly resourced in the past. For 2026/27 and 2027/28, the total grant allocation amounts to R277.204 million and R290.100 million, respectively. 819