JOHANNESBURG - Government has allocated more than half of the country’s R2 trillion spending budget for this year to social services.
This is followed by health, which stands at R248.8 billion a slight increase from R230 billion last year.Government said the decision to spend R987.1 billion or 56.8% of allocations in this year's budget is in line with its pro-poor policies. Treasury has also earmarked more than R28 billion in the next three years in standalone conditional grants to provinces and municipalities that will allow them to upgrade informal settlements.
This forms part of proposed changes to the structure of conditional grants, which Treasury said was meant to align with evolving policy objectives.The social services allocations, however, also reveal some reductions, which include health spending where just over R50 billion will be cut in the next three years.
Seems like this country likes to incentivize unemployment, laziness and making babies you cant afford?