Departmental Budget Speeches 2024

Provincial budget speech for 2024

Western Cape Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities, Mireille Wenger, delivered the 2024 Provincial Budget Speech on 7 March 2024. In his speech she outlined the provincial government's priority spending plan for the next financial year.

The 2024 Western Cape Budget, "A Budget to keep building a Western Cape that works for all" is a pro-growth budget and 75%+ spend to benefit poor and vulnerable residents.

The 2024 Western Cape Budget provides total expenditure amounting to R255.29 billion.

The Western Cape Government will allocate a total budget of R84.00 billion in 2024/25; R84.38 billion in 2025/26; and R86.908 billion in 2026/27.

Over the 2024 MTEF to keep building a Western Cape that works for all:

• We will allocate R182.35 billion to wellbeing, inclusive of Health and Wellness, Education and Social Services;
• We will allocate R45.35 billion to continue our work to grow the economy and enable the creation of many more jobs, across the province;
• We will allocate R21.87 billion to innovation, culture, and governance, as a critical tool to enhance service delivery and to enable public servants to do more for our residents; and
• We will allocate R5.08 billion to safety to boost existing interventions, which includes an additional R 190.36 million over the 2024 MTEF, so we can keep building a future where we all feel safe.

Departmental budget speeches

Each provincial department is allocated a budget that is used to deliver services in the province, and to help the province reach its Provincial Strategic Goals. 

In their budget presentations to provincial parliament, the provincial ministers outline how their budget allocation will be spent in their department.

Find out how the provincial departments plan to spend their 2024 budgets, and how these plans may impact you in the year ahead. You can view each of the provincial budget speeches below, as soon as they become available:

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport 
• Department of Economic Development and Tourism
• Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning
• Department of Infrastructrure
• Department of Local Government 
• Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety
• Department of Social Development
• Department of the Premier
• Provincial Treasury
• Western Cape Education Department
• Western Cape Government Health and Wellness
• Western Cape Mobility Department