Securing the Age of Hope in the Western Cape What the Provincial Government’s Budget will do for us in 2006/07 PREMIER’S DEPARTMENT: • Announce new Operating Licensing Board AGRICULTURE: PREMIER EBRAHIM RASOOL • No license fee increase MEC COBUS DOWRY BUDGET: R 310 927 000 • 17 new schools BUDGET: R 254 034 000 • Build Khayelitsha, Paarl and Mitchell’s Plain Hospitals - • The Provincial Growth and Development @ R250m • Feasibility study of Bio-Ethanol Production Strategy [PGDS] – iKapa Elihlumayo – • Create 40 000 work opportunities through EPWP • Launch pilot project for dedicated rural to be released for public comment in • Start Taxi Recapitalisation Programme finance scheme July 2006 • Maintenance on tarred roads and upgrading of rural • Agriculture BEE awareness campaign 1. Public Transport gravel roads - R574m • Agri-Business Investment Unit 2. World Cup 2010 • Upgrade Gansbaai - Bredasdorp gravel road - R200m • Introducing 4500 historically disadvantaged students to 3. Energy supply • Construct Potsdam Interchange on N7 - R70m sustainable land resource use 4. Skills development • Rehabilitate and resurface N2 - R115, 6m • Test cattle of emerging farmers on the Cape Flats for 5. Cape Flats Renewal Programme Bovine Tuberculosis and Brucellosis • PGDS implementation vehicles: HEALTH: • Implement strategic plan to improve living conditions of 1. A new, more strategically focused, Cabinet system MEC PIERRE UYS farm workers 2. A more coherent policy centre in government BUDGET: R 6 323 493 000 3. Alignment of Government work through the Premier’s EDUCATION: Coordinating Forum [PCF] • Service assistance to 11 000 nurses MEC CAMERON DUGMORE 4. Three new functional Planning Regions [Cape Town, • Extend hours at 10 community health BUDGET: R 6 988 131 000 Southern Cape, Hinterland] centres 5. Partnerships [Investment leverage, higher education, • Increase success rate of Mother-To-Child • Invest R6.988-billion in education and Provincial Development Council] HIV/Aids transmission prevention skills development, mainly in public • Enhanced capacity for the State to deliver through • 22 500 patients on ARV treatment schools and FET colleges re-engineered Department • Improve TB hospitals, clinics and mobile clinics • Numeracy and literacy, as the foundation • More new ambulances and patient transport vehicles for all education and training COMMUNITY SAFETY: • Open Detox unit at Stikland Hospital • FET in schools and colleges, to prepare learners for MEC LEONARD RAMATLAKANE • 106 additional nurses in Metro higher education and the world of work BUDGET: R 181 257 000 • Home-based care workers, childhood illness community • Infrastructure - providing schools, halls, laboratories and workers, TB community workers and ARV and VCT computers • Recruit and train 2000 new Bambanani counsellors • School safety Volunteers to combat crime • Hospital revitalisation, infrastructure and maintenance • Social capital, to build partnerships in education • Recruit and train 500 Bambanani • Department redesign, to build capacity and to transform Volunteers to combat gangs and violence SOCIAL SERVICES AND POVERTY education in high risk schools ALLEVIATION: • R700 000 to extend the capacity of investigators and MEC KOLEKA MQULWANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING: prosecutors BUDGET: R 727 143 000 MEC RICHARD DYANTYI • Train additional 500 Victim Support Counsellors at Police BUDGET: R 776 962 000 Stations to assist women and children • Increase access to services • Increase capacity of the Child Rapid Response Unit to • Integrated substance abuse programmes • 2005/06: spent entire housing conditional prevent missing children • Research on the status and safety of grant, built 16 053 houses, provided • Reduce contact crime by further 8-10% children 18 412 serviced sites, completed twenty • Reduce motor vehicle fatalities by further 5-7% • Lead efforts to ensure that women enjoy equal freedom basic services projects and civil liberties • 2006/07: Spend housing conditional grant by December TOURISM AND TREASURY: • Administrative and secretarial learnerships for disabled 2006 and provide emergency relief to thousands of MEC LYNNE BROWN young people residents BUDGET: R 178 383 000 • Strategic partnerships for services to empower young • Implement new Human Settlements Strategy, including people pilot projects in Plettenberg Bay, Dido Valley and • Develop False Bay coast as a tourist route • Research to identify child-headed households to design Blueberry Hill • Operate a year round 24/7 Tourist in and implement service delivery model • Hands-on support to municipalities in developing Distress campaign • Support sustainable community small business sustainable spatial frameworks, provision of centralised • Evaluate the quality of existing tourist enterprises resources, training councillors and establishment of attractions, products and services district youth units • Establish Tourism People Development Forum for skills ENVIRONMENT, PLANNING AND • Combat corruption by assisting municipalities with fraud • Massification of tourism Enterprise Development ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: prevention programmes, focussing on survivalist and micro MEC TASNEEM ESSOP enterprises BUDGET: R 319 821 000 CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND SPORT: • Establish fund to develop new small tourism businesses MEC WHITEY JACOBS in District Municipalities • Micro-Economic Development Strategy BUDGET: R 187 691 000 • Roll-out domestic tourism campaign • Broad Based Black Economic • Enhanced oversight to improve spending Empowerment, Local Economic Development and • Provincial summits for Football and • Budgeting to promote shared growth and development Enterprise Development School sport • Enhanced working relations and alignment between • Interventions in workforce skills development • Provincial netball tournament to departments and municipalities • Investment recruitment and trade promotion highlight fight against domestic violence • Ensure sound procurement and management of • Implement Provincial Spatial Development Framework • Establish Coordinating Committee to manage provincial provincial assets • Integrate environmental, development planning, and school sport heritage legislation • Construct 4 sport facilities in farming communities TRANSPORT AND PUBLIC WORKS: • Develop key programmes to drive the Environment • Commence upgrade of Langa Stadium MEC MARIUS FRANSMAN Economy • Upgrade further 10 school sport facilities BUDGET: R 2 064 326 000 • Facilitate market expansion for products from recycled • Extend the Siyadlala sport hubs from 11 to 32 materials and the role of poor communities communities to promote mass participation • Launch Strategic Infrastructure Plan - July • Provincial climate change response strategy • Build libraries in Haarlem and Vredenburg and extend • Award 250 bursaries over next MTEF - • Sustainable Development Implementation Plan. mobile libraries to 5 rural communities R250m • Support Western Cape Nature Conservation to develop • Memorialize the first victims of the 1976 Youth uprising DP/056E/ORYXMEDIA • Launch Learnership 1000 - 14 June comprehensive fire fighting strategy in the Western Cape • Launch Youth and Women in Construction • Finalise Integrated Energy Strategy • Finalise plans to upgrade Phillipi stadium • Develop Public Transport Improvement Plan • Launch sustainable livelihood and community based • Launch Disability Sport Academy in natural resource management programmes cooperation with University • Strengthen Air Quality Management of Stellenbosch Walk in: 142 Long Street, Cape Town I Call in: 0860 142 142 I Log in: www.capegateway.gov.za.