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Department: Office of the Premier
Compensation of employees increased from R66.750 million in 2019/20 to an estimate of R76.090 million

in 2022/23 due to provision made for the Improvement of Conditions of Services adjustments due to
provision made for the new posts. In 2023/24, the budget increased by 35 per cent to R102.722 million
mainly due to the implementation of the new organisational structure.

Goods and Services increased from R197.568 million in 2019/20 to an estimate of R382.961 million in
2022/23 financial year increased expenditure for the Microsoft licences. In 2023/24, the budget decreases
by 2 per cent to R375.232 million due to reduced provision for the Microsoft licences as a result of

integrated ICT service.

Transfers and Subsidies increased from R21.687 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of
R22.703 million in 2022/23 in line with inflationary adjustment. In 2023/24, there is no provision made in
over the MTEF due to the decision taken to move the bursaries of Top achievers which previously located

under Human Resource Management to Integrated Youth Development in the new structure.

Payments for Capital Assets provision in 2022/23 is due to the provision made to purchase switches and
serves. In 2023/24, the department has made a provision for the purchase of provincial hotline software.

8.4.1 Service delivery measures

Table 23: Service delivery Measures

Estimated
performance Medium-term estimates
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26

Number of officials trained in critical skills areas through the OTP training programmes 100 300 300 300
Number of Broadband sites with speed of 100MBPS connected 1 100 975 225 250
Percentage reduction of incidences of litigation in the Provincial Administration 48% 40% 35% 32%
Percentage reduction of incidence of corruption in the Province 45% 40% 38% 35%

Table 23 above provides selected service delivery measures for Governance, State Capacity and
Institutional Development Support. The department capacitate government officials with the requisite skills

that are of transversal nature. In the ICT environment, the department will be fast tracking the
implementation of broadband project while pursuing key projects under that Provincial Digital

Transformation Strategy. With litigation management unit, having been established in the OTP in the
2021/22 financial year the department will continue to implement measure to deter and reduce litigation in
the province. Our efforts to root-out corruption in the public service will also continue as we commit

ourselves to reducing the percentage of conflicted officials by 40 per cent.

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