Infrastructure Spending in the Heritage Sector – Spending Review Report

The social importance of heritage assets to the South African public is what drives DSAC to invest in capital project analyses at the departmental and public entity level. The Department implements its heritage assets through capital transfers to public entities and by directly contracting IDT to carry out the implementation. The data shows that planning, budgeting and management of capital projects is a severe challenge to DSAC. The main discovery was that the departmental infrastructure, which is the portion of capital projects the Department implement itself performs low than public entities at face value.