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Department: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture

is tilted towards OR Tambo District and followed by the Amathole District municipalities due to their

vastness in size and population.

7.5 Infrastructure payments

7.5.1 Departmental infrastructure payments

Table 7: Summary of departmental payments and estimates on infrastructure

Main Adjusted
Outcome Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 from 2022/23
Existing infrastructure assets 13 817 10 682 40 169 34 750 33 369 33 369 25 802 42 141 38 177 (22.7)
Maintenance and repairs 2 162 3 659 5 096 6 450 5 862 5 862 3 610 3 000 5 459 (38.4)
Upgrades and additions 174 2 241 954 2 100 4 629 4 629 1 539 – 227 (66.8)
Refurbishment and rehabilitation 11 481 4 782 34 119 26 200 22 878 22 878 20 653 39 141 32 491 (9.7)
New infrastructure assets 18 130 2 584 10 638 23 621 37 309 37 309 19 200 9 143 17 729 (48.5)
Infrastructure transfers – – – – – – – –
–
–
Current – – – – – – – –
–
Capital – – – – – – – –
Infrastructure payments for
–
financial assets – – – – – – – –
–

Infrastructure leases – – – – – – – –
Non infrastructure 1 977 1 450 2 055 2 155 2 155 2 155 2 177 – – 1.0
Total department infrastructure 33 924 14 716 52 862 60 526 72 833 72 833 47 179 51 284 55 906 (35.2)
1. Total provincial infrastructure is the sum of "Capital" plus "Recurrent maintenance". This includes non infrastructure items.
Table 7 above shows the summary of payments and estimates on infrastructure by the department.
Infrastructure payments increased from R33.924 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of
R72.833 million in 2022/23, due to the resuscitation of projects, that suffered work stoppages and budget
cuts during the lockdown period of 2020/21 financial year. Expenditure on infrastructure will decrease by
35.2 per cent in 2023/24 to R47.179 million, due to projects that are at the completion stage. These include

Mango Modular Library, Fort Beaufort and Jeffrey’s Bay libraries and Barkly East Museum in the Joe Gqabi
District.

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 2023/24 the department will perform renovations at Ugie, Pearston and Fingo Libraries.

7.5.2 Maintenance

Infrastructure maintenance increased from R2.162 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of
R5.862 million in 2022/23 due to the state of decay of the projects that were maintained especially the
Thombo Arts Centre. In 2023/24, maintenance and repairs decrease by 38.4 per cent to R3.610 million as

projects that are maintained will be having less expenditure due to the new fittings.

7.5.3 Non-Infrastructure
The non-Infrastructure payment increased from R1.977 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of

R2.155 million in 2022/23 due to more intake in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). This is
one of the department’s initiatives designed to contribute to the challenge of unemployment in the province.

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