Economic Development and Tourism

Western Cape Department Budget for 2025-26 https://www.westerncape.gov.za/edat
Vision The Department’s vision is a Western Cape that has a vibrant, innovative, and sustainable economy, characterised by economic growth and employment. Mission To attain the vision statement as expressed above, the Department of Economic Development and Tourism will provide qualitative leadership to the Western Cape’s economy through the Department's understanding of the economy, its ability to identify economic opportunities and potential, and its contribution to government’s economic priorities. Main Services and Core functions With the adoption of Strategic Goal 1: Create opportunities for growth and jobs and its subsequent Strategic directive, the primary focus for Vote 12: Economic Development and Tourism is squarely placed on delivering effectively on the provision of an enabling business environment which will allow for the private sector to grow the economy and create jobs. Furthermore, there is a national drive and commitment to create jobs. This is demonstrated by the numerous incentives associated with National Government’s approach to economic stimulation policies, where the emphasis has been placed on the creation of “real work opportunities”. In this context, this Department, has emphasised a strategic approach that will be grounded in the need to: • Create opportunities for growth; • Increase work opportunities for all citizens; • Creating an enabling environment for business and citizenry growth and development; and • Creating a competitive and productive economic Province.
The Budget Cycle
Plan

2025-26 Budget

The Estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) is a book published along with the tabling of the budget for the new financial year.

Spending plans by programme and sub-programme

A department's programmes are the activities that it spends money on during the financial year. Different programmes have different budgets, depending on their objectives and available budgets. More detail on the programmes is available in the department's Estimates of Provincial Expenditure documents.

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Classification of spending items

In addition to exploring the department budget by programmes, the budget is classified according to Economic Classification.

The Economic Classification of a department's expenditure distinguishes between various categories of current expenditure and capital expenditure. The purpose of the economic classification is to categorise transactions according to type of object or input, such as compensation of employees or capital assets.

This visualisation highlights how many categories of expenditure there are for this department at Economic Classification level 4, and which ones are the biggest. year -- 2025-26

Programme spending under economic classifications

Budget programmes will differ in composition of spending, from compensation of employees, transfers to other agencies and goods and services, depending on their objective.

Select an Economic Classification to filter the data in this chart and see how much programmes spend on that category.

2025-26 Adjusted Budget

The Adjusted Estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (AEPRE) is a book published along with the tabling of the adjusted budget.

Implement
Review

Planned compared to historical expenditure

Budgeted and actual expenditure/allocations for a department can increase or decrease from year to year. Changes in expenditure for a department can be because of changes in the activities of the department, because of changes in priorities between departments, because of cost efficiencies or because of increases in the price of goods and services due to inflation.

The chart shows the department’s actual expenditure for past years, and budgeted expenditure for the current year and the upcoming three years of the medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF). By adjusting these numbers to take inflation into account, it is possible to determine if a department’s expenditure is really increasing or decreasing in real terms, as compared to the rest of the economy.

Previous financial years indicate actual expenditure while upcoming financial years indicate estimated expenditure:

Year Phase

Budgeted and actual expenditure comparison

Compare the adjusted appropriation to the main appropriation to see whether changes were made in the adjustments budget to the appropriations set out in the budget. The audited outcome shows what was actually spent.

Note: Direct charges against the National Revenue Fund are excluded.

Read more in the Annual Report on the department's website.

Budgeted and actual expenditure comparison by programme

Compare the amount of budget allocated to each of this deparment’s programmes at each phase in the process leading up to the Audited Outcome