North West (8 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Motlalepula Rosho                       I     Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

Limpopo (8 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Seapora Sekoati                          I     Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

Mpumalanga (8 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Vusi Mkhatshwa                           I    Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

Eastern Cape (8 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Mlungisi Mvoko                            I    Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

Gauteng (9 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko          I     Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

KwaZulu-Natal (9 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Nomusa Dube-Ncube                  I    Watch

Appropriation Billl

 

Northern Cape (9 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Abraham Vosloo                           l   Watch

Appropriation Bill                                                       I   Watch

 

Free State (11 March 2022)

MEC for Finance Gadija Brown                                I    Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

Western Cape (14 March 2022)

MEC for Finance David Maynier                               I    Watch

Appropriation Bill

 

What is the Provincial Budget?

The Provincial Budget Speech is an annual event in each of South Africa’s nine provinces, in which the MEC of Finance outline the provincial government’s spending plans for the financial year.

The central principle of the budget is to use it as an instrument to accelerate service delivery and create jobs.

Transfers to provinces

Over the next three years, government proposes to allocate 48.4 per cent of available non-interest expenditure to national departments, 42 per cent to provinces and 9.6 per cent to local government.

The National Government uses a redistributive formula to determine how much of the budget can be allocated to the provinces. The allocation of funds to the Provincial spheres is calculated mainly but not solely on the basis of democratic and economic profile.

These transfers are in the form of an Equitable Share (amounting to between 31 and 33 per cent of the main budget allocations over the MTEF) as well as allocations, in the form of conditional grants for national priorities (amounting to almost 10 per cent of the main budget allocations over the MTEF) to be implemented in the provincial and local spheres of government. The provincial equitable share is the main source of revenue through which provinces are able to meet their expenditure responsibilities (mainly for compensation of employees).

To ensure that allocations are fair, the equitable share is allocated through a formula using objective data to reflect the demand for services across all nine provinces. These services are mainly for the provision of Health, Education, Social Development (excluding transfers in the form of social grants), Economic Development and specific functions such as the Presidential employment programme, delivered by provinces. Conditional grants to provinces fund government policy priorities supporting the implementation of the National Development Plan/2019-2024 MTSF.