Gauteng Education's R70.9bn Budget: Here's Where the Money Is Going

Gauteng education's R70.9bn budget: Here's where the money is going

The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has increased its budget to prioritise key challenges within the sector. These include overcrowding, infrastructure backlogs, and performance improvements in critical areas such as Mathematics, Science, Technology, reading development and technical education. The department’s budget has increased by R2.9 billion, from R68 billion in the 2025-26 financial year to R70.9 billion in 2026-27. Infrastructure d…

GP education earmarks R1.2bn for gateway subjects

The Gauteng Department of Education sets aside R1.2 billion to strengthen maths, science, tech and technical education in 2026/27.

Lebo Maile’s budget vote looks into key interventions in Gauteng education system

Gauteng education MEC Lebo Maile says his department’s priority would be to drive a seamless education and crack down on  corruption that is perpetrated by some teachers and principals, who dip their fingers into school finances. Maile said this during a press briefing on the tabling of the budget vote at the legislature on Tuesday. He said his portfolio aimed to offer a preview of key interventions to strengthen public education in the province…

Maile wants arrests over mismanaged school funds, as GDE tables R70.9bn budget

By Charmaine Ndlela Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile will push for criminal action against officials implicated in school financial mismanagement, saying dismissals are not enough where public money has been stolen. Presenting the Gauteng Department of Education’s R70.9 billion budget for the 2026/27 financial year at the provincial legislature on Tuesday, Maile said that the department had identified around 30 schools where financial misman…