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Department: of Transport
been moved to December 2023. The Contractor has however established site, and progress is at 5 per

cent.

Even though the department is one of the highest contributors to the revenue collection of the province, it
has been falling behind on its revenue collection targets. To date, the department has managed to collect

68 per cent against a target of 74 per cent against the budget amount. The department remains committed
to engaging the defaulting registering authorities towards honouring payment arrangements for the pay
over of the motor vehicle collections.

3. 3. Outlook for the coming financial year (2023/24)

The department seeks to continue improving administrative efficiency and effectiveness through the
implementation of the approved new organisational structure (organogram) that was approved on

26 July 2022. The implementation of the new organogram as envisaged, will be implemented from
1 April 2023 in line with the implementation plan. The human resource capacity and numbers will increase

by 20 per cent on core personnel, thus strengthening key service delivery areas such Traffic Law
Enforcement, Road Safety education and Road Infrastructure.

The Transport Infrastructure Programme will continue with its agenda which aims at improving economic

growth whilst providing safe and reliable infrastructure to support health, tourism and social amenities,
agricultural production and linkage between corridors. To improve the transport system, the programme
will continue developing implementation plans for the already existing Non-motorised Transport and Public

Transport plans.

The department in 2023/24 will continue to focus on maintenance (preservation) and limit capital projects
by researching alternative technologies for road building to fulfil meeting the community’s needs.

In responding to the 1 358 backlog of several hundred major culverts and bridges, the department has

made commitment for 2023/24 to upgrade the gravel roads to surfaced roads where the programme has
looked into implementing projects utilising alternative methods to surfacing. The following are the major
road infrastructure projects: R72 to Hamburg (2.5 kilometres), Coffee Bay to Zithulele Hospital

(3.5 kilometres), Cofimvaba to Askeaton (4 kilometres), Canzibe Hospital Road (2.5 kilometres ), Qumbu
– Tsilitwa Access Road (Paving) (2.5 kilometres), Siphethu Hospital road Phase 4 (14 kilometres), Centane

Kie Mouth – Qholorha Phase 4 (10 kilometres), Enoch Mgijima Phase 5 (4 kilometres) and SLA Enoch
Mgijima – Fikile Gwadana Drive (6.9 kilometres).

The are some projects that are still continuing and are in progress such as; upgrading of DR08606:
Sterkspruit to Mlamli Hospital, upgrading of DR08125 N2 to Siphetu Hospital Ph_4, SLA EC Dot Enoch

Mgijima LM – upgrading Fikile Gwadan Drive and upgrading of DR18045 from Centane Kei Mouth
Qholorah Ph_4.

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