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Department: Public Works and Infrastructure
x Ever-increasing need to address, in a cost effective manner, the crumbling government buildings
infrastructure that pose a safety threat to service delivery;
x Growing expectations for improved infrastructure coordination and delivery that comes with the new
directives mentioned above;
x Need to ensure that infrastructure expenditure is resulting in socio-economic reforms, sector
transformation and development of livelihoods of poor communities; and
x The need to optimally utilise the provincial immovable asset portfolio and public infrastructure to
facilitate socio-economic development of the Province and grow the economy of the Eastern Cape and
the country at large.

1.6 The Acts, rules and regulations

The department derives its mandate from the Constitution (Part A of Schedule 4). In carrying out its core
function and responsibilities, the department is governed by the following acts, rules and regulations:
Government Immovable Asset Management Act (Act 19 of 2007) (GIAMA); Eastern Cape State Land
Disposal Act (Act 7 of 2007); Infrastructure Development Act (Act 23 of 2014); Spatial Planning and Land
Use Management Act, 2013 (Act No. 16 of 2013); Property Sector Transformation Charter, 2007 (Charter
2007); Construction Industry Development Board Act (Act 38 of 2000); Public Finance Management Act
(Act 1 of 1999) and Regulations; Public Service Act (Act 103 of 1994) and Regulations 2001 as amended;
Employment Equity Act (Act 55 of 1998); Labour Relations Act (Act 66 of 1995); Construction Regulations
2014; Expanded Public Works Programme Framework and Guidelines 2015; and the Supply Chain
Management Frameworks.
1.7 Budget decisions

Notwithstanding the continued tight and shrinking fiscal envelope resulting from an unfavourable economic
environment facing the country, the department continues to execute its mandate of being a custodian of
provincial government immovable assets, coordinator and provider of sustainable infrastructure resulting
in socio-economic transformation and development. The department continues to be affected by the high
municipal tariff increases which are above inflation, increased infrastructure construction and maintenance
costs, increasing immovable asset register in terms of market value and volume as well as continuous
increase on rate per square meter by the landlords due to office space demands. The latter requires the
department to survey and do the land audits in order to determine if the asset is the province’s.
1.8 Aligning departmental budgets to achieve government’s prescribed outcomes

In fulfilling its mandate, the department has identified outcomes / priorities in the National Development
Plan (NDP) Vision 2030, Medium Term Strategic Framework (2020 – 2025) and Provincial Priorities[5-
Year Implementation Plan of the Provincial Development Plan (PDP 2020 – 2025), which are aligned to
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the work the department will be undertaking in the 6 administration.
With a budget allocation of R1.884 billion for Programme 2 in 2023/24, the department contributes towards
a poverty free, enterprising, economically growing and connected Eastern Cape Province, utilising the
immovable assets and the enabling infrastructure entrusted into its custody. Key priorities are P-MTSF
Priority 2: Economic Transformation and Job Creation, P-MTSF Priority 7: A better Africa and World; PDP
Goal 1: Innovative and inclusive growing economy, PDP Goal 2: An enabling infrastructure network, PDP
Goal 4: Human development, PDP Goal 5: Environmental sustainability and the EC 5-Point Recovery Plan
for Infrastructure Development, Public Finances and Industrialisation. These are contributing towards SDG
8: Decent Work and Economic growth and SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. The following
are sector-aligned departmental outcomes through which these priorities are implemented under this
programme:

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