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Procurement Disclosure Report reveals 47% of Covid-19 expenditure spent on SMMEs

1 September 2020

We are pleased to publish the second edition of the Procurement Disclosure Report by Provincial Treasury. This edition of the Procurement Disclosure Report expands on the previous report to include a snapshot of the Covid-19 expenditure spent on SMMEs which amounts to R669 million or 47.41% of ...

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Special Adjustment Budget: Provincial Treasury (Vote 3)

31 July 2020

Note to Editors: The following speech was delivered by Minister David Maynier in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament on 31 July 2020. 1. Introduction We tabled the Main Budget 2020, entitled “A Budget for You”, on 10 March 2020 in this Parliament. However, the ink was hardly dry when we learned ...

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Debate on the Special Adjustment Budget 2020: Speech by David Maynier

29 July 2020

Introduction When the storm finally hit we found that national government had run out of money to fight Covid-19 in South Africa. Which is not surprising because while we are mobilising funding to support the fight against Covid-19, national government are mobilising funding to support zombie state ...

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Procurement Disclosure Report a commitment to clean governance

28 July 2020

We are pleased to publish the first edition of the Procurement Disclosure Report by Provincial Treasury. The Procurement Disclosure Report details all personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement and expenditure in the Western Cape in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in a regular and ...

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Special Adjustment Budget Address - A Budget to Beat Covid-19 in the Western Cape

23 July 2020

Special Adjustment Budget – A Budget to Beat Covid-19 in the Western Cape We could not have imagined the size and the ferocity of the storm on the horizon when we tabled the main budget in Parliament. When the main budget was tabled, we committed to supporting the health department should Covid-19 ...

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Media Alert: Special Adjustment Budget Address - A Budget to Beat Covid-19 in the Western Cape

20 July 2020

On Thursday, 23 July 2020, the Western Cape Minister for Finance and Economic Opportunities, David Maynier, will be delivering the Special Adjustment Budget Address in the provincial legislature. The theme for the Special Adjustment Budget is “A Budget to Beat Covid-19 in the Western Cape” and the ...

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Driving innovation through Virtual Accounting and Reporting Committee

13 July 2020

The Western Cape Provincial Treasury recently launched its Virtual Accounting and Reporting Technical Committee, providing a platform for deliberations on technical accounting matters. Through this committee, MFMA and PFMA entities receive provincial researched advice and guidance on accounting ...

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Special Adjustment Budget – Broken promises leave provinces short-changed in the fight against Covid-19

24 June 2020

We are on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19, including funding and providing temporary hospital facilities, quarantine and isolation facilities, humanitarian relief, and ensuring that schools can operate safely, with costs expected to exceed R5 billion in 2020/21, in the Western Cape. ...

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Special Adjustment Budget: Time to deliver on promises made

23 June 2020

Tomorrow (24 June 2020), the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, will table a special adjustments budget in Parliament, which we hope will provide clarity on the scale of national government’s financial support for the fight against Covid-19 in the Western Cape. During the opening of the Hospital of ...

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R1.14b committed towards Covid-19 response in Western Cape

22 May 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic facing South Africa requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response. That is why the Provincial Treasury, working together with all departments in the Western Cape government, is working hard to support a full-scale response to Covid-19. When I presented the 2020 ...

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