Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced that the City of Cape Town has successfully invested R9.5 billion in infrastructure for 2024/25, the highest ever for any South African metro.
According to the mayor, the City recorded a capital budget spending performance of 92.3%.
Safety and Security was the top-performer for percentage spent – at 99.7%, while Water and Sanitation was the top spender in rands, with 95% spent of its sizeable R4 billion capital budget.
Mayor’s vision for Cape Town
Mayor Hill-Lewis emphasised that delivering infrastructure projects is crucial to Cape Town’s long-term resilience and economic growth.
“It’s one thing to allocate record budgets for infrastructure, and quite another to actually deliver these large projects in a very complex construction environment. This result is most pleasing – with a full 92,3% and R9,5 billion of our capital investment budget having been successfully invested,” Hill-Lewis said.
He added that Cape Town was being built project by project, into a city of hope with a growing economy that is able to absorb many more people into work.
Safety and Security leads in performance
As mentioned, Safety and Security achieved the highest percentage spend, using 99.7% of its R472 million budget. Investments in this area focused on:
- Fire station upgrades
- Metro police training facilities
- Vehicles
- CCTV, bodycams, and digital coordination systems
Big budget infrastructure directorates
Meanwhile, Water and Sanitation led capital expenditure in rand value, with 95% spent of its substantial R4 billion budget. This directorate alone accounted for nearly 40 cents of every infrastructure rand invested.
“Every section of pipe replacement, every wastewater works upgrade, every pump station that gets refurbished, every source of water added to the City supply, is an investment in the dignity and health of Capetonians, and is literally changing people’s lives,” Mayor Hill-Lewis said.
Other directorates which invested over R1 billion this year include Energy (92.5% spent), Human Settlements (92%), and Urban Mobility (84.4%).
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