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Department: of Transport
R445.512 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of R547.331 million. In 2023/24, it decreases by 5 per

cent to R520.108 million.

Compensation of Employees increased from R260.789 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of
R281.585 million in 2022/23 due to the filling of vacant funded posts. The 10.9 per cent increase to

R312.298 million in 2023/24 is due to the anticipated filling of critical vacant posts to support the mandate
of the department.

Goods and services increased from R105.439 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of R155.763 million

in 2022/23, due to the centralisation of funds for fuel from other programmes to this programme. The
decrease of 21.4 per cent to R122.506 million in 2023/24 is due to the once off allocations for the
procurement of Learner Transport Management system and the Employees Monitoring system in 2022/23.

Transfers and subsidies relate to households mainly for the payment of leave gratuities and penalties as

well as external bursaries. The budget increased from R16.416 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of
R37.655 million in 2022/23 is due to higher than initially anticipated attrition rate. This resulted from a
management decision to allow employees over the age of 55 to take early retirement resulting in the related

payment of the penalty paid by the department. This is followed by 18.3 per cent decrease to
R30.760 million in 2023/24 due to lesser number of employees confirmed to be leaving the department.

The increase in the Payment for capital assets from R62.866 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of

R72.328 million in 2022/23 is due to the centralisation of the payment of contractual obligations pertaining
to finance leases such as cell phones, photocopier machines and ICT payments from all programmes to
this programme. This is followed by a decrease of 24.6 per cent to R54.544 million in 2023/24 due to the

repriotisation of funds in order to provide for software contractual obligations like, End-User Protection
(Anti-Virus) and e-signatures, which remain critical for the organisation.

8.2 Programme 2: Transport Infrastructure

Objectives: The objective of the programme is to plan for the provision of transport services, facilities and
infrastructure, including the provision of support and co-ordination of the Integrated Transport Planning at

the local sphere. The programme is divided into 6 sub-programmes:
x Programme Support facilitates the governance of the programme and the attainment of the

programme objectives;
x Infrastructure Planning provides management of integrated land transport to provide mobility to
the commuters;

x Infrastructure Design manages, co-ordinates and facilitates transport safety and compliance in all
related legislation and policies through pro-active and reactive tactics and strategies;

x Construction develops new, re-construct, upgrade and rehabilitate road and transport
infrastructure;
x Maintenance effectively maintains road and transport infrastructure; and

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