Gauteng Education Department battling budget constraints and resource pressures [SOUND]

# Gauteng Education MEC, Lebohang Maile, says although the provincial education budget has increased significantly over the years, financial constraints remain a major challenge. The national education budget grew from 31.4-billion-rand in 1995/96 to just over 358.5-billion-rand in 2025/26. Over the same period, the provincial education budget increased from 4.5-billion- to 70.9-billion-rand in 2026/27. Maile says this represents a one-thousand-476 percent increase over 31 years: