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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial YearGovernance, State Capacity and Institutional Development (GSCID) Cluster There are four departments in this cluster: Office of the Premier, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Provincial Treasury and Community Safety. For the 2025/26 financial year, the proposed resource envelope for the cluster amounts to R3.357 billion and it increases to R3.433 billion in the outer year of the 2025 MTEF. An analysis of the department%u2019s budget in this cluster, is provided below. Office of the Premier The department will continue to contribute towards Priority 3 %u201cA Capable, Ethical and Developmental State%u201d of the PDP. The department is projecting to spend R4.464 billion over the 2025 MTEF. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 22.3 per cent to R1.519 billion from the revised estimate of R1.242 billion. Over the 2025 MTEF, there are additional allocations of R271.707 million for equitable share that have been made available to the department. As part of Equitable share, funding was provided by national for the wage agreement amounting to R3.127 million in 2025/26 and R12.421 million over the 2025 MTEF. Furthermore, there are allocations of R50.339 million in 2025/26 and R161.935 million over the 2025 MTEF for Microsoft licenses and unified support as well as the R82.341 million in 2026/27 and R9.025 million in 2027/28 for servicing sites connected with broadband, which are actively being utilised, excluding those with zero utilisation. Also, the allocations for ECSECC in 2025/26 are the R3.735 million for the Eastern Cape Regional Observatory, R3 million for the long-term planning and R1.550 million for the Eastern Seaboard Development. As part of the funding for servicing sites connected with Broadband, the department has a reduction in its budget baseline of R4.241 million in 2025/26 and R11.518 million over the 2025 MTEF. In terms of the baseline reprioritisation, there is a decrease of R121.576 million in 2025/26, which is due to the following: %uf0b7 The rescheduling of R8 million from 2024/25 to 2025/26 for Isiqalo Youth Fund.%uf0b7 A decrease of R129.576 million in 2025/26 due to the front loading from 2025/26 to 2024/25for the broadband.Funding provided from the provincial reserves for provincial priorities are R452.547 million in 2025/26 and R919.769 million over the 2025 MTEF, which is for the servicing sites connected with broadband which are actively being utilised, excluding those with zero utilisation. This was funded by the reduction in the budget baseline from departments. Funds was shifted from Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs amounting to R4.525 million in 2025/26 and R14.304 million over the 2025 MTEF due to the function shift of the Recognition of Traditional Leaders. 73