“The department has included reprioritisation of at least R1.4bn from within its budget, and an additional conditional grant allocation of R585.7m is made. The amount allocated to health from the provincial reprioritisation sees R4.5bn of the R6.2bn allocated to this department,” Pillay said.
The total amount the province has estimated that is required for the Covid-19 response is about R11.5bn. With health’s response calculated at R8.2bn, education at R2.8bn, social development R300.1m and learner transport at R214m. Pillay said it was also decided to allocate R300m toward the provincial economic recovery response and to reallocate R200m to transport for infrastructure projects.
The provincial education amount of R2.8bn takes into account some of the costs of repairing schools vandalised during lockdown, providing chemical toilets for some schools that didn't have adequate facilities, water provision, PPEs and additional cleaners."The amount identified through internal reprioritisation is R1.2bn and the amount to be allocated to the department from the R6.2bn provincial reprioritisation is R1bn.
The costs in social development for providing care to the homeless during lockdown and providing food parcels to destitute families have been calculated at R25.7m and R239.1m, respectively.
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