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Department: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Cultureand creation of jobs through Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). Over the 2025 MTEF, the department intends to monitor its expenditure in municipalities. The budget allocation for the department is slanted mainly towards Cacadu, Alfred Nzo and Amathole District municipalities due to their vastness in terms of their size and population. The budget increased from R940.276 million in 2021/22 financial year to a revised estimate of R1.060 billion in 2024/25 due to investments in the increasing community libraries to improve their operationalisation and infrastructure projects. In 2025/26 financial year the total payments increase by 1.8 per cent due to the completion of some infrastructure projects. 7.1 Infrastructure payments 7.4.1 Departmental infrastructure payments Table 7: Summary of departmental payments and estimates on infrastructure Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28Existing infrastructure assets 30 264 40 169 12 241 14 327 17 381 17 381 15 275 14 088 15 278 (12.1)Maintenance and repairs 2 934 5 096 5 185 2 327 2 327 2 327 2 318 2 241 3 027 (0.4)Upgrades and additions 1 729 954 1 190 100 952 952 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 (100.0)Refurbishment and rehabilitation 25 601 34 119 5 866 11 900 14 102 14 102 12 957 11 847 12 251 (8.1)New infrastructure assets 25 632 10 638 10 500 14 500 26 017 26 017 8 000 9 602 10 164 (69.3)Infrastructure transfers %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 Current %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 Capital %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 Infrastructure payments for financial assets %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013Infrastructure leases %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013Non infrastructure 2 055 2 155 1 965 2 058 2 058 2 058 2 500 %u2013 %u2013 21.5Total department infrastructure 52 862 58 051 24 706 30 885 45 456 45 456 25 775 23 690 25 442 (43.3)1. Total provincial infrastructure is the sum of \s non infrastructure items.2024/25Table 7 above shows the summary of payments and estimates on infrastructure by the department. Infrastructure payments decrease from R52.862 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R45.456 million in 2024/25, due to the reprioritisation of funding towards staffing of new libraries. Expenditure on infrastructure will decrease by 43.3 per cent in 2025/26 to R25.775 million due to the completion of some infrastructure projects. For libraries, maintenance remains the responsibility of municipalities but budgeted for by the department under library subsidies of which transfers are made annually to municipalities. Sports facilities are transferred on completion to municipalities and maintenance is also the responsibility of those municipalities. In 2025/26 the department will perform renovations and refurbishments on two museums namely, Somerset East and Sterkstroom museum over the MTEF. 7.4.2 Maintenance Infrastructure maintenance decreased from R5.096 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R2.327 million in 2024/25 due to the completion on works in Thombo and Emaxesibeni Arts Centres. In 2025/26, infrastructure maintenance decreases by 0.4 per cent to R2.318 million mainly due to the completion of the maintenance of the Art Centres. 7.4.3 Non-Infrastructure The non-Infrastructure payment increased from R2.055 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R2.058 million in 2024/25 due to increased intake in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). This is one of the department%u2019s initiatives designed to contribute to the challenge of unemployment in the province. The department had 123 beneficiaries in the EPWP Programme in 2024/25 financial year and estimating 111 beneficiaries for 2025/26. Departmental Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects None. 824