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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial Yearfor employees. Compensation of employees will increase by 5.7 per cent to R154.852 million in 2025/26 due to the estimated salary increments in 2025/26. Goods and services increased from R20.132 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R21.259 million in 2024/25 financial year, due to the normalisation of events on arts and culture development in terms of festivals, workshops, craft fairs, social cohesion dialogues etc. Goods and services increase by 14.2 per cent in 2025/26 to R24.287 million due to the enhancing of the repatriation programme to increase the number of remains repatriated per year. Expenditure on Transfers and subsidies decreased from R76.122 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R72.242 million in 2024/25. The decrease is due to reduced funding for film as some of the funded films were once off and were completed. In 2025/26, Transfers increase by 2.1 per cent to R73.773 million due to the funding of heritage projects under Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resource Agency (ECPHRA). These include the statues for Steve Biko and Victoria Mxenge, Mthetheleli Ngumbela and King Phalo. Payment for capital assets decreased from R16.449 million in 2021/22 financial year to a revised estimate of R4.138 million in 2024/25 due to the completion of refurbishment projects in Amathole, Fort Beaufort museums. Capital spending will increase by 52.1 per cent to R6.295 million in 2025/26 due to the planned refurbishment of Somerset East and Sterkstroom museums. Service Delivery Measures Table 17: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P2: Cultural Affairs Estimatedperformance Medium-term estimatesProgramme performance measures 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28% of coordination initiatives convened 100% 100% 100% 100%Number of policy frameworks developed 2 6 3 2 Number of practitioners benefitted from capacity building opportunities 811 877 850 811 Number of community conversations/dialogues implemented to foster social interaction (sector indicator) 1 2 4 1 Number of arts and culture institutions supported through transfers 4 4 4 4 Number of provincial community arts development programmes supported (Sector indicator) 35 25 35 37 Number of arts and culture facilities resourced 13 11 9 13 Number of provincial flagship projects financially supported (sector indicator) - 1 2 1 Number of museum institutionalised partnerships serviced 2 2 20 2 Number of museum institutions supported through transfers. 20 20 5 20 Number of community members accessing cultural facilities 80 000 54 340 60 000 80 000 Number of museums refurbished 4 4 53 4 Number of national days commemorated 5 5 5 5 Number of initiatives implemented to raise awareness on the national symbols (MTSF) (sector indicator) 4 4 4 4 Number of functional provincial heritage institutions supported to standardise place names 1 1 1 1 Number of heritage institutions supported through transfers 1 1 1 1 Number of human remains exhumed, repatriated and reburied 8 8 6 4 Number of advocacy programmes conducted (heritage significant days) 14 21 19 19Number of programmes implemented to give effect to the development of indigenous languages 2 2 3 3Number of programmes in support of the social cohesion strategy 4 3 3 3Number of programs implemented to support writers 4 6 7 8Number of community conversations/dialogues implemented to foster social interaction (Sector Indicator) 2 1 4 5Number of Language Planning programmes conducted (status, corpus, and acquisition planning) 3 1 3 4Table 17 above shows the service delivery measures for Programme 2 %u2013 Cultural Affairs. The department will continue to create job opportunities through heritage. Furthermore, the department will continue to support the heritage institutions through subsidies. 831