Pietermaritzburg - KwaZulu-Natal finance MEC Belinda Scott on Tuesday presented a plan to cut lavish spending, saying it was the correct move in a slow economy.
Tabling the R101bn budget, Scott told Members of the Provincial Legislature that education (R42bn) and health (R32bn) were getting the largest allocations from the budget.
The cost-cutting measures she announced include eliminating non-essential posts, conducting a headcount to eliminate ghost employees, freezing budgets for non-essential goods and services at 2014/15 levels, not using musicians or other performing artists at government events, and putting an end to distributing government-branded tracksuits, T-shirts or other promotional material.