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Joburg, Ekurhuleni residents await budget plans

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Residents of Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni will find out how their municipalities will spend their budgets in the new financial year on Thursday.

Finance Member of the Mayoral Committee in the City of Johannesburg Funzela Ngobeni will deliver his budget speech in the Council Chamber in Braamfontein.

His counterpart from the City of Ekurhuleni Doctor Xhakaza will also unveil his budget at the Eden Park Sport Ground in Kempton Park. The two MMCs are expected to give details of how their municipalities’ developmental plans will be funded in the 2018/2019 financial year.

The City of Johannesburg’s Nthathisi Modingoane explains what MMC Ngobeni will talk about

“The budget will look at highlighting the allocations for key programmes for the city in terms of accelerating service delivery.”

Ekurhuleni Finance MMC Doctor Xhakaza highlights his key issues in what he says will be a pro-poor budget “Budget tariffs, social packages for indigents and the poor, service delivery and all budget related policies.”

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