GDE consistently fails to spend its infrastructure budget
19 November 2019
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has once again failed to spend its allocated infrastructure budget.
This was revealed in the department’s second quarterly report for the 2019/20 financial year.
According to this report the department has only spent 24% of its infrastructure budget instead of the target of 50% which should have been spent at this point.
The department was allocated an annual infrastructure budget of over R1,9 billion and they should have spent over R974 million but only R476 million has been spent to date.