The payments for capital assets spent 18.6 million or 100 per cent of the available budget. Spending was 58 per cent more than the projected R11.7 million, mainly attributable to the reclassification of finance lease costs from the item goods and services to capital payments. The rehabilitation of ownerless and derelict mines were not realised as anticipated. There were delays in implementing the projects and capacity problems within the sub- programme Mine Environmental Management: Mine Closure Directorate. The sub- programme spent 69 per cent of the allocated budget. Transfers and subsidies to public entities and agencies constituted R438 million or 42 per cent of the total vote allocation.