The department of home affairs says that compulsory budget cuts will not mean it has to close any of its offices, but will have a "negative impact on the filling of some posts".
Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, confirmed his department was facing compulsory budget cuts in reply to a Parliamentary question from the DA's Joseph McGluwa.
"Budget cuts will have a negative impact on the filling of some posts, but we are not envisioning closure of any Home Affairs office," he said.
Details of the cuts are contained in a document published by National Treasury in June. The paper provides national departments and public entities with guidelines of how to prepare their budget submissions.
It refers to a compulsory budget baseline reduction scenario of:
- 5 percent in 2020/21;
- 6 percent in 2021/22; and
- 7 percent in 2022/23.
Departments must show how they can make cuts with the least impact for service delivery, and must suggest "non-priority programmes and projects to be scaled down or closed.