Almost R10bn allocated for infrastructure projects in WC for 2025/26 financial year

CAPE TOWN - Almost R10 billion has been allocated for infrastructure projects in the Western Cape for the 2025/26 financial year.

Infrastructure MEC Tertuis Simmers tabled the province's infrastructure budget in the legislature on Monday.

Simmers said that more than R4 billion would be spent to maintain, upgrade and expand the province's road networks.

He said that more than R6 billion would be used to accelerate housing delivery and upgrading informal settlements, and R2.5 billion would go towards public works programmes, including construction.

Simmers added that R365 million was allocated to bursary programmes, skills development, digital infrastructure and energy projects.

"We are allocating over R15.3 million towards the Masakhi’iSizwe bursary programme, unique only to our province, which has for the 2025 academic year already awarded 151 bursaries to students studying within sectoral aligned fields, such as, architecture, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, mechatronics, quantity surveying and other fields related to our sector."

Simmers said that by empowering these young people, they were looking to the future of infrastructure in the province.

"We are not only equipping these individuals to step into specialised jobs, but we are also absorbing the necessary skills and knowledge to shape our future together."