Mini-budget targets violence and child health

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement commits to preventing gender-based violence and femicide and supporting health interventions to combat child malnutrition and stunting.

“These savings will be reprioritised to prevent gender-based violence and femicide and to support priority health-sector interventions to combat child malnutrition and stunting.”

Six point two billion from welfare fraud

Treasury projects better verification measures will remove seven hundred thousand fraudulent social grant recipients by the two thousand twenty-nine slash twenty thirty fiscal year, returning six point two billion rand.

Three point eight billion for social workers

The budget allocates three point eight billion rand to hire more than three thousand five hundred social workers specifically to strengthen prevention in response to rising murders and attacks on women.

Expanding courts and care centres

One hundred eighty-six million rand funds forensic and investigative capacity, expanding sexual offences courts from fifty-five to one hundred one and increasing Thuthuzela Care Centres from seventy-two to eighty by two thousand twenty-eight slash twenty-nine.

Coordination funding for women's department

An additional one hundred fifty-seven point four million rand is allocated to the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities to improve national coordination and oversight of government's response to gender-based violence and femicide.

Fuel levy relief from November

Petrol levy reduces by one rand fifty cents and diesel by three rand eighty cents from four November to one December, then drops to one rand and one rand fifty cents respectively until five January…

Local government gets twenty-one point eight billion

An additional twenty-one point eight billion rand goes to the local government equitable share to cover higher bulk costs of free basic water, sanitation, electricity and refuse removal.

Metros' fuel levy share restored

The general fuel levy allocation increases by thirteen point four billion rand, restoring the metros' share to twenty-three percent over the medium term, up from the typical eighteen percent.

Provincial health and education funding

An additional twenty point five billion rand goes to the provincial equitable share to help provinces meet higher costs of healthcare and education.

Early childhood development investment

One point six billion rand is allocated over the medium term to support early childhood development, focusing on pre-birth care and the first one thousand days of life.

MyMzansi digital platform launched

One hundred fifty million rand enhances the digital services unit to develop the MyMzansi app, allowing citizens to access government services through a single digital platform.

Social Relief of Distress extended

The Social Relief of Distress grant continues for another year while work proceeds on integration with labour market activation, skills development and enterprise support through the MzansiXchange data exchange project.