Cape Town passes 2024/2025 budget with focus on pro-poor spending

“With South Africa’s lowest unemployment rate and well over 300,000 jobs added since the start of this municipal term, Cape Town is already the city where a person is most likely to find a job and we plan to do much more to grow our economy in the years to come to the benefit especially of lower income households.”He added lower income households will directly benefit from 75%, or R9bn, of the city’s R12bn infrastructure spend in 2024/2025.“This pro-poor infrastructure spend in 2024/2025 is bigger than the entire infrastructure budget of any other city. It is the factual end…