(a) (i) The Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) is administered by the Department of Cooperative Governance with the aim of developing infrastructure to provide poor households with at least a basic level of service. Municipalities have been allocated R15,6 billion in 2021/22 that is aligned to the municipal financial year that will end on 30 June 2022.
Municipalities have reported expenditure on the MIG over the last 5 years 2016/17 - 2020/21) as follows:
|
Financial year |
Transferred |
Spent by receiving municipalities |
% spent against transferred |
|
2016/17 |
14,914,028 |
13,784,509 |
92.40% |
|
2017/18 |
15,891,252 |
14,545,025 |
91.50% |
|
2018/19 |
15,287,685 |
13,831,893 |
90.48% |
|
2019/20 |
14,816,103 |
11,720,688 |
79.11% |
|
2020/21 |
14,491,065 |
13,226,723 |
91.28% |
|
Total |
75,400,133 |
67,108,838 |
89.00% |
Disaster Grant contribution to Infrastructure Development (NDMC):
Funding allocations have been done from the Disaster Grants within the NDMC to augment resources of affected organs of state regarding infrastructure development: The funds were allocated from the Municipal Disaster Relief Grant, Provincial Disaster Relief Grant and Municipal Disaster Recovery Grant mainly in addressing the drought conditions in affected provinces and municipalities. The allocations were as follows:
|
Financial years |
Type of grants |
Amounts transferred |
Purpose of allocation |
|
2017/2018 |
Municipal Disaster Relief Grant |
R341 373 000 |
Drought interventions: Infrastructure |
|
Provincial Disaster Relief Grant |
R78 000 000 |
||
|
2018/2019 |
Municipal Disaster Recovery Grant |
R 1 025 484 000 |
|
|
2019/2020 |
No disaster grant allocations |
||
|
2020/2021 |
Provincial Disaster Relief Grant |
R138 489 000 |
|
|
2021/2022 |
Municipal Disaster Relief Grant |
R 173 132 000 |
|
|
Provincial Disaster Relief Grant |
R48 100 000 |
||
|
Total (infrastructure development) |
R1 804 578 000 |
(ii) According to the MIG Framework, which stipulates the conditions under which the funds allocated to municipalities must be used, indicates that funds for the maintenance of roads must be in line with the maintenance priorities identified through the Rural Roads Asset Management System (RRAMS) administered by the Department of Transport. Although this provision has been made within the MIG no maintenance on roads maintenance has been funded form the MIG within the last 5 years.
(b) MIG receiving municipalities reported that:
- In 2019/20 MIG allocations were reprioritised in April 2020 to address Covid-19 related areas. The expenditure reported on projects was R204 million.
- In 2020/21 (period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2022) MIG receiving municipalities reported expenditure of R609 million.
Disaster Grant allocation to Covid-19 response measures
|
Financial years |
Type of grants |
Amounts transferred |
Purpose of allocation |
|
2019/2020 |
Provincial Disaster Relief Grant |
R 466 392 000 |
Covid-19 response measures |
|
2020/2021 |
Municipal Disaster Relief Grant |
R150 970 000 |
|
|
Total (Covid-19) |
R617 362 000 |
(c)
|
Financial years |
Type of grant |
Amounts transferred |
Purpose of allocation |
|
2016/2017 |
No disaster grant allocations |
||
|
2017/2018 |
Municipal Disaster Recovery Grant |
R26 147 000 |
Interventions to sinkhole formation conditions |
|
R16 304 000 |
Interventions to storm damages
|
||
|
2018/2019 |
R200 654 000 |
||
|
2019/2020 |
No disaster grant allocations |
||
|
2020/2021 |
Municipal Disaster Relief Grant |
R157 137 000 |
|
|
Total (flood and storm damage interventions) |
R400 242 000 |
(d) (i) The total amount of R14,7 billion was transferred to the eThekwini over the last 5 years and (ii) R909 million had to be returned to the National Fiscus.
The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality has received various grants (conditional and unconditional) from the national fiscus over the last five years to assist with infrastructure development. They are:
|
Financial tear |
Grants received
|
Actual Expenditure reported
|
Total unspent |
Approved Rollover |
Amount to be returned |
|
2016/17 |
2,976,972 |
2,948,818 |
28,154 |
- |
28,154 |
|
2017/18 |
3,036,370 |
2,700,090 |
336,280 |
554 |
335,726 |
|
2018/19 |
2,984,325 |
2,482,135 |
502,190 |
2,662 |
499,528 |
|
2019/20 |
3,189,069 |
3,120,680 |
68,389 |
32,449 |
35,940 |
|
2020/21 |
2,515,345 |
2,497,398 |
17,947 |
8,528 |
9,419 |
|
Total |
14,702,081 |
13,749,121 |
952,960 |
44,193 |
908,767 |
National Treasury
(ii) The total amount of R908.7 million was recorded as unspent conditional grants by the National Treasury (this amount has since returned to the NRF). This amount excludes the grants allocated for operational purposes, unconditional grants, indirect grants and the rollover approved amount of R44.2 million.