Link to the full WCG Record of Delivery 2025/2026 magazine here.

Department of the Premier 

• Digital access close to home: 83 eCentres, including one mobile centre, provided access to devices, connectivity and support in rural, peri-urban and underserved communities.
• eKiosks extended the access model: the 2025/26 pilot covered 10 rural libraries and three museums, using existing community facilities to help residents access digital government services.
• School admissions support: 677 Grade 1 and Grade 8 applications were facilitated in the final quarter of 2025/26 through a joint Education, eCentres and eKiosks intervention.
• Stronger digital infrastructure: 461 government sites migrated to Broadband 2.0 by year-end, strengthening connectivity for digitally enabled services.
• Youth work experience: since 2012, the Premier’s Advancement of Youth programme has provided 9 626 young people with workplace experience and career-building skills. This is a cumulative figure.
• Broadband reach: 2 033 sites were provided with broadband connectivity in 2025/26.
• Direct access to leadership: the August 2026 First Thursday event recorded 223 attendees and 155 registrations of cases for the Premier, Ministers, Mayor or MAYCO members. Attendees may arrive in groups, with one representative registering each case.

Provincial Treasury 

• Opening procurement to women: approximately R7.5 billion, or 34.6% of WCG procurement expenditure, went to women-owned businesses, exceeding the national target of 30%.
• This was the second consecutive time WCG procurement spending on women-owned businesses exceeded the benchmark, expanding access to public-sector business opportunities.
• Accountability across government: in 2025, all WCG departments and public entities achieved unqualified audits for a third consecutive year.
• Municipal financial governance: 25 of the province’s 30 municipalities achieved unqualified audits, including 20 clean audits.
• Easier access for suppliers: the Electronic Procurement Solution, Supplier Evidence Bank and Procurement Client Centre simplified procurement processes and access to opportunities.
• Support where finances are under pressure: new Financial Recovery Plans were implemented in Kannaland and Theewaterskloof, while support continued in Beaufort West to strengthen municipal finances and service delivery.
• Alternative and Blended Finance: the Framework establishes an approach to identifying, assessing, approving and managing financing opportunities beyond the provincial budget. No new projects had yet been implemented under the Framework.

Economic Development and Tourism

• Investment commitments: R23.13 billion was recorded through Wesgro and the Atlantis Special Economic Zone. These are committed investments, rather than a claim that the full amount has already been spent.
• Small-business support reached 574 businesses, including 279 black-owned, 167 women-owned, 71 youth-owned and seven owned by persons with disabilities; ownership categories may overlap.
• Connecting businesses to customers and capital: 12 entrepreneurship interventions included supplier days and investor-readiness roadshows across the Metro, Overberg, Garden Route and Cape Winelands. A verified 2 243 people accessed economic opportunity pathways.
• Tourism beyond the Metro: since its first iteration, the Tourism Growth Fund has supported 38 interventions across all districts, unlocking more than R21 million in private co-funding and supporting more than 590 jobs. These are cumulative results.
• A business example: ECEP packaging support helped Wonder Snacks compete in wider markets. The business subsequently reported revenue growth above 40%, five permanent jobs and its first export order to Namibia.
• Air access: three new African routes and 11 route expansions strengthened regional and international connections. A São Paulo service by LATAM Airlines was announced.
• Investment Summit: more than 500 delegates attended and over 200 project sponsors and fund representatives joined structured engagements. The R400 billion deal book was a pipeline for investor discussions, not secured investment.

Agriculture

• Protecting livestock and livelihoods: by March 2026, approximately 154 255 Foot-and-Mouth Disease vaccine doses had been administered, supporting disease control and protection of agricultural jobs and food security.
• Dated update beyond the reporting year: by 19 August 2026, 382 209 primary vaccinations had been completed, reported as 82% of the provincial herd; a further 97 560 booster vaccinations had been administered.
• Coordinated FMD response: a 21-Point Plan and FMD War Room brought together government, veterinarians and industry around vaccination, surveillance, quarantine, animal movement controls and communication. Vaccination progress does not mean the outbreak had ended.
• Drought support: R26 million was reprioritised for fodder in the Central Karoo, Garden Route and parts of the Cape Winelands and Overberg. Of 1 353 applications, 892 farmers were approved for assistance.
• Work and water resilience: invasive vegetation clearing and river rehabilitation created 1 247 work opportunities, exceeding the target of 1 100, with more than R41 million invested across these initiatives.
• Food security at home: World Food Day interventions established 203 household gardens, seven subsistence projects and five school gardens in six Swartland communities. Egg-production support brought the total number of supported households to 226.

Education

• Record matric achievement: the Class of 2025 achieved an 88.2% NSC pass rate, the province’s highest recorded rate. A total of 32 474 candidates achieved Bachelor passes, representing 49.2% of participants.
• Strong subject results: the province achieved the country’s highest Mathematics pass rate at 73.7%, and the second-highest Physical Sciences pass rate at 80.6%.
• Learning recovery: #BackOnTrack used provincial testing data to target teacher development, Saturday and holiday classes, and support at the grades and schools where gaps were greatest.
• Foundation Phase gains: Grade 3 Mathematics reached 62.0%, up 6.1 percentage points on 2024; Language reached 51.2%, up 5.8 points. Both exceeded pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
• Further recovery: Grade 6 Language improved to 44.5%, while Grade 9 Mathematics reached 24.9%, above its 2019 level. Grade 9 Language remains an area requiring focused support.
• More classroom space: 253 new classrooms were added during 2025/26, helping the system respond to demand.
• A learner example: Northpine Technical High School learner Hayrian Prins improved from Level 2 to Level 4 in Mathematics after receiving additional support, describing greater understanding and confidence.

Cultural Affairs and Sport

• Safe after-school spaces: 315 MOD centres, supported by 496 coaches, reached 77 665 registered learners in 2025 through sport, arts, culture and play.
• Wellbeing support: 83 coaches trained in the Take 5 approach delivered weekly sessions to 2 881 children. In the pilot study, 98% of participating adolescents felt safe and 67% improved their emotion-regulation scores.
• Pathways for rural talent: nine of the 50 girls selected nationally for the 2025 SA Rugby U18 Elite Player Development Squad came from MOD centres; all rural Western Cape girls selected came through this pathway.
• Youth work opportunities: YearBeyond created 3 323 work opportunities in 2025/26, with women accounting for 76%, combining training, mentoring and practical community placements.
• Progression after YearBeyond: monitoring reported a 71% progression rate into work, study or business among the 3 250 YeBoneers in the reported cohort. This differs from the work-opportunity count.
• Benefits for children: YearBeyond served 31 717 children, including 8 260 at risk of dropping out or failing a grade. In its early-childhood programme, 94% of parents reported being better equipped to support learning after weekly home visits.
• A pathway into teaching: former MOD participant Unathi Makhambé completed an honours degree at UCT and became a creative arts teacher at Chris Hani High School, creating opportunities for another generation.

Health and Wellness

• Everyday access to care: 18.4 million health visits took place across the provincial health network, averaging more than 50 000 visits a day.
• Emergency response at scale: EMS managed 871 659 incidents in 2025/26, including 275 990 Priority 1 life-threatening emergencies.
• Emergency response: 80.9% of Priority 1 rural responses were reached within 60 minutes, exceeding the 77% target.
• A stronger start for babies: Khulisa Care offered eligible pregnant women and mothers of low-birth-weight babies a R525 monthly food voucher and community health-worker visits in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and the Breede Valley.
• Dated programme update: by 31 July 2026, 1 971 women had enrolled in Khulisa Care, comprising 38% pregnant women and 62% mothers of low-birth-weight babies.
• Listening to young people: 49 094 Grade 8 and 9 learners at 123 schools in the Garden Route, West Coast and Cape Metro took part in the 2025 Planet Youth baseline survey to inform local health and wellness action.
• Healthcare infrastructure: capital projects were completed at 11 facilities against nine planned, with 99.2% of the capital infrastructure allocation spent. Completed work included the Lentegeur Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit and the Eerste River Hospital Acute Psychiatric Unit.
• School and hospital care: school health services reached 168 070 learners; acute hospitals recorded approximately 513 185 inpatient separations, more than 1.5 million outpatient visits and more than 1 million emergency-centre visits.
• Patient experience: overall satisfaction increased from 80.8% to 82%. A 98.6% Patient Experience of Care survey rate was achieved against a target of 89.4%.

Social Development

• Earlier intervention for children: 5 220 at-risk children were identified for social-work interventions, while 12 866 children accessed community-based care.
• Stronger families: 27 874 families received support to build stronger relationships and provide more stable environments for children.
• Support after gender-based violence: 22 771 victims accessed psychosocial support services, helping residents find safety and rebuild their lives.
• Care close to home for older residents: funding supported 126 community-based service centres, alongside partnerships with 114 residential facilities, 36 assisted-living facilities, 10 independent-living facilities and seven social service organisations.
• Youth skills: 14 138 participants benefited from structured training, mentoring and personal development through Youth Skills Development programmes.
• Better case management: more than 1 300 social workers used the Social Work Integrated Management System to manage over 80 000 cases.
• A recovery example: at DSD-funded St Anne’s Homes, Kamogelo received shelter and support during pregnancy, found employment and, after two years, had saved money and established greater stability for herself and her daughter.

Police Oversight and Community Safety

• Targeted deployment: murders in LEAP-supported precincts fell by 7.7% during 2025/26, compared with a 0.4% decrease across the province.
• Operational reach: LEAP supported policing in six high-risk precincts: Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Philippi East, Gugulethu, Nyanga and Delft, targeting illegal firearms, drugs and liquor proliferation.
• Rural safety: K9 and Rural LEAP units in Swartland, Overstrand and Mossel Bay made 1 141 arrests, opened 390 drug cases and conducted 175 integrated operations in April 2025–March 2026.
• Visible enforcement: the rural units stopped 6 680 vehicles at roadblocks and opened 101 liquor-related and 114 dangerous-weapons cases.
• Youth pathways: 641 young people completed Chrysalis Academy training in 2025/26, with a total of 2 893 young people completing Chrysalis Academy training over the five years to 2025/26. The Academy provides a three-month programme, followed by a one-year paid internship and five years of aftercare.
• Work experience over time: the departmental EPWP Youth Work Programme funded 5 747 youth work opportunities from 2021/22 to 2025/26, through graduate internships, rural Peace Officer placements and festive-season deployment.
• Community participation: 489 Neighbourhood Watch structures were accredited as at 12 August 2026. They support vigilance and reporting.

Infrastructure

• Housing support beyond building: 1 358 serviced sites were completed, comprising 335 Informal Settlements Upgrading Partnership Grant sites and 1 023 Human Settlements Development Grant sites.
• Formal housing delivery: 3 411 housing units were completed over the 2025/2026 period. Beneficiaries:
• Helping residents buy homes: 1 165 First Home Finance subsidies were disbursed, exceeding the target of 900; a further 637 individual non-credit-linked subsidies exceeded the target of 130.
• Keeping homes in families: the WCG–FNB Housing Subsidy Partnership used qualifying subsidies to settle outstanding home loans. In October 2025, 44 title deeds were handed over, including to Wilfred and Yolanda Rangolie.
• Preserving roads: 565 096 square metres of provincial road surface were resealed or resurfaced during 2025/26, extending asset life and supporting daily travel and economic connections.
• Practical local benefits: maintenance covered approximately 21 km of Du Toitskloof Pass, an important alternative to the N1 tunnel route. On Trekkers Road near Plettenberg Bay, a new sidewalk provided a safer walking space, with labour-intensive construction creating local work and skills opportunities.
• Housing pipeline: construction commenced on four social housing projects that will deliver 2 165 social rental units, while the approved Mandalay project will add a further 770 social rental units.

Mobility

• Removing the cost of job hunting: Getting YOU to Work has supported more than 24 000 registered jobseekers since its February 2024 launch, providing free off-peak trips for interviews and employment-related opportunities.
• Employment outcomes: 7 000 registered jobseekers had obtained a job and that 95% reported benefiting from the travel voucher programme.
• Reaching women and youth: approximately 65% of beneficiaries were women and 68% were youth. It is estimated that R1.6 million was saved in jobseekers’ travel costs.
• Wider access: self-registration was introduced in June 2025, and the programme expanded to GO GEORGE in May 2026, extending its reach beyond Cape Town.
• Road safety and income: 85 unemployed community members gained work opportunities as Road Safety Ambassadors, providing education and support at schools, taxi ranks, clinics and other busy community spaces.
• Learning safer road use: eight Junior Traffic Training Centres were established across all provincial regions in 2025/26, reaching more than 4 000 learners through practical training in simulated road environments.
• Inclusive design: Chere Botha School’s traffic training centre was adapted for wheelchairs and other mobility devices, while the Strandfontein Police Station centre extended access beyond the school environment.

Local Government

• Water security: more than R148 million has been invested in helping municipalities secure reliable supplies through infrastructure, groundwater and technical support.
• Protecting household supply: Prince Albert’s War on Leaks project repaired household leaks and improved water-use efficiency.
• Additional water sources: the Riversdale project in Hessequa identified two productive groundwater boreholes. In Knysna, pump-station optimisation and emergency groundwater interventions identified resources capable of contributing up to 10 million litres a day during drought conditions.
• Cederberg infrastructure: support included the Lambert’s Bay Wellfield Development, a new 3.5-million-litre reservoir in Citrusdal, storage refurbishment in Paleisheuwel and preparatory work for Lambert’s Bay desalination.
• Matzikama resilience: rehabilitation of Vanrhynsdorp’s distribution system included internal water-supply upgrades and post-flood repairs to bulk mains crossing the Troe-Troe River, strengthening critical supply infrastructure.

Environmental Affairs and Development Planning

• Conservation estate expanded: approximately 44 231 hectares were added during 2025/26. CapeNature managed 111 protected areas covering 872 384 hectares; 99.7% of the estate was rated as effectively managed.
• Created 2 647 work opportunities through the procurement of 73 local SMMEs for services including invasive alien plant clearing, fire-break maintenance, and trail and road upkeep.
• Provided a further 543 EPWP work opportunities with 56% going to women and 78% to youth.
• Access to nature: CapeNature welcomed 523 827 visitors and delivered environmental education to 98 schools and 25 communities, connecting residents to natural assets and supporting local tourism.
• Water and climate resilience: invasive-plant clearing partnerships protected important catchments, while 12 municipalities had Climate Change Plans in place to guide local adaptation.
• Environmental enforcement: 370 compliance inspections and 220 enforcement actions addressed issues including illegal dumping, sewage discharge and pollution; 12 criminal cases were referred to the National Prosecuting Authority.
• Community infrastructure: completed Regional Socio-Economic Projects or project phases included work in Swellendam, Velddrif, Kwanokuthula in Riversdale, Rawsonville and Stellenbosch, including business and trader facilities.
• Better evidence for housing and coastal decisions: Housing Market Studies covered 11 municipalities; five Estuary Management Plans were approved for the Breede, Klein Brak, Groot Brak, Gourits and Maalgate estuaries.

Green energy across government

• Solar power: 980 MW Solar Power Generated
• Public facilities: solar power installations at nearly 100 schools and hospitals.
• School energy efficiency: energy-efficiency interventions were implemented at 46 schools.
• School solar and storage: solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage systems were implemented at 26 schools.
• Hospital energy systems: energy-efficiency interventions were implemented at nine hospitals, and solar photovoltaic systems at 12 hospitals.
• Municipal project preparation: three municipalities received technical assistance through the Project Preparation Facility.