MTBPS: Finance MEC Nkomo-Ralehoko Says Gauteng Has To Do ‘More With Less’

Thalia Holmes

A new finance MEC, a new administration, and the roll-out of a new provincial economic plan.

The Gauteng Medium-term budget policy statement, presented on Tuesday by Finance MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, was all about taking stock and adjusting the strategic focus adopted by South Africa’s economic hub.

Nkomo-Ralehoko, speaking to the Gauteng legislature, noted that her maiden adjustment speech came at the end of the fifth administration and the dawn of the sixth.

With it, comes the province’s focus on resourcing a five-prong provincial plan: “Growing Gauteng Together, or the GGT plan.

“The GGT Plan aims at addressing the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment, and inequality that continue to prevail in the Gauteng and the whole country,” the introduction to the adjustment detail reads.

It will do so by addressing five key priorities, identified as:
• Economy, Jobs and Infrastructure;
• Education, Skills Revolution and Health;
• Integrated Human