Division of Revenue Act, 2014 (Act No. 10 of 2014)

Vote

Name of allocation

Purpose

Column A

Column B

Forward Estimates

2014/15

Allocation

2015/16

2016/17

RECURRENT GRANTS

R'000

R'000

R'000

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(Vote 3)

Municipal Systems Improvement Grant

To assist municipalities to perform their functions and stabilise institutional and governance systems as required in the Municipal Systems Act and related legislations

  252 152

  261 060

  274 896

Energy

(Vote 29)

Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management Grant

To provide subsidies to municipalities to implement Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management initiatives within municipal infrastructure, in order to reduce electricity consumption and improve energy efficiency.

  136 905

  188 305

  203 815

Human Settlements

(Vote 31

Municipal Human Settlements Capacity Grant

To build capacity in municipalities to deliver and subsidise the operational costs of administering human settlements programmes.

  300 000

  300 000

  300 000

National Treasury

(Vote 10)

(a) Infrastructure Skills Development Grant

To recruit unemployed graduates in municipalities to be trained as per the requirements of the relevant Statutory Council/professional body within the built environment.

  104 425

  129 226

  138 725

(b) Local Government Financial Management Grant

To promote and support reforms in financial management by building capacity in municipalities to implement the Municipal Finance Management Act.

  449 138

  469 799

  494 698

Public Works

(Vote 7)

Expanded Public Works Programme Integrated Grant for Municipalities

To incentivise municipalities to expand work creation efforts through the use of labour intensive delivery methods in the following identified focus areas, in compliance with the Expanded Public Works Programme Guidelines: road maintenance and the maintenance of buildings, low traffic volume roads and rural roads, basic services infrastructure, including water and sewer reticulation, sanitation, pipelines (excluding bulk infrastructure), other economic and social infrastructure, tourism and cultural industries, waste management, parks and beautification, sustainable land-based livelihoods, social services programme, health service programme and community safety  programme.

  594 575

  618 966

  705 997

Transport

(Vote 37)

Public Transport Network Operations Grant

To provide operational funding to support the planning, regulation, control and management of municipal public transport networks and services.

  902 817

1 043 024

1 362 321

Water Affairs

(Vote 38

Water Services Operating Subsidy Grant

To subsidise, refurbish and restore the functionality of water services schemes previously owned and/or operated by the Department of Water Affairs or by other agencies on behalf of the department.

  449 558

   470 239

  495 162

TOTAL

3 189 570

3 480 619

3 975 614

INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS

R'000

R'000

R'000

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(Vote 3)

a) Municipal Disaster Recovery Grant

To rehabilitate and reconstruct disaster damaged municipal infrastructure.

       37 302

         21 805

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b) Municipal Infrastructure Grant

To provide specific capital finance for eradicating basic municipal infrastructure backlogs for poor households, micro enterprises and social institutions servicing poor communities.

14 683 835

 15 098 070

15 766 819

Energy

(Vote 29)

Integrated National Electrification Programme (Municipal) Grant

To implement the Integrated National Electrification Programme by providing capital subsidies to municipalities to address the electrification backlog of occupied residential dwellings, and the installation of bulk infrastructure.

 1 104 658

  2 056 090

 2 165 063

Human Settlements (Vote 31)

Rural Households Infrastructure Grant

To provide specific capital funding for the reduction of rural sanitation backlogs and to target existing households where bulk-dependent services are not viable.

      47 624

        51 000

    124 599

National Treasury

(Vote 10)

Neighbourhood Development Partnership Grant

To support and facilitate the development of urban network plans that consist of primary and secondary networks that interconnect at strategic nodes, which in townships are referred to as urban hubs; urban network plans, precinct plans and then all projects aim to guide the delivery of catalytic infrastructure to leverage third party public and private sector development in the urban hubs; the aim of targeting investment in these strategic locations, as identified by urban network plans, is to improve the quality of life and access of residents in under-served neighbourhoods, generally within townships.

    591 179

     600 000

   631 800

Transport

(Vote 37)

(a) Public Transport Infrastructure Grant

To provide for accelerated planning, construction and improvement of public and non-motorised transport infrastructure.

 4 968 029

 5 097 881

5 104 052

(b) Rural Roads Asset Management Systems Grant

To assist rural district municipalities to set up rural Road Asset Management Systems, and collect road and traffic data on municipal road networks in line with the Road Infrastructure Strategic Framework for South Africa.

      75 223

      97 763

    102 944

Water Affairs

(Vote 38)

Municipal Water Infrastructure Grant

To facilitate the planning, acceleration and implementation of various projects that will ensure water supply to communities identified as not receiving a water supply service.

    534 150

 1 380 205

 1 302 002

TOTAL

22 042 000

24 402 814

25 197 279