Page 72 - Provincial Treasury Estimates.pdf

Overview of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (OPRE) Financial Year 2023/24

INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE

Taking into account the requirements of the IDMS for the provision for lifecycle costing of assets,
the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing facilities takes priority over the construction of new

facilities. To this end, the prioritization of maintenance has been factored into the 2023/24 financial
year as 29.01 per cent of the total Infrastructure allocations. However although the total provincial

allocation for maintenance is 29.01 per cent, the Department of Education has not met the 60 per
cent requirement for maintenance as required by the Division of Revenue Act (DORA) nor

obtained an approval from DBE for non-compliance as they only allocated 21.03 per cent. To this

end, the Province endeavours to develop, implement and report on an integrated maintenance
strategy to benefit public sector infrastructure in the province

NON INFRASTRUCTURE

The item classified under ‘non-infrastructure’ refers to items/projects that do not fall within the category of

buildings and other fixed structures such as HR Capacitation, project management fees and Implementing
Agent costs. In terms of the 2023/24 financial year, the non-infrastructure for the Province is currently
sitting at 8.36 per cent of the total infrastructure allocations.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTERS

Changes in rainfall and temperature, and the increase in the occurrence of short-term flood events will
continue to have a negative impact on human settlements. The severity of short-term flood events may
damage physical infrastructure such as buildings, pipelines, roads, electricity substations, and railway

lines. People living in informal dwellings, who are already vulnerable, People living on the coast, will also
be vulnerable due to the impacts of sea-level rise and coastal storms as a result of climate change. Climate

change will also influence the rural – urban migration rates, as those relying on farming at a subsistence
level may no longer be able to do so due to the changes in climate.

It is thus crucial that the Province embarks on the mitigation strategies for climate change and disasters
through ensuring compliance with National, Provincial as District and Municipal Policies and Guidelines
taking into account that Districts have their own climate change strategies. This will be included in the

IDMS planning process and confirmed by the assessment of submissions in terms of planning phase of
the IDMS. To this end, the Province has requested all infrastructure departments to ensure that a minimum

55