DA-led Western Cape wants money from national government as population soars
Western Cape premier, Alan Winde has called on national government to increase the Western Cape's budget to accommodate the growing population.The DA-led Western Cape wants more funding from the national government.Census data showed the province's population grew by 27% to 7.4 million people over the last decade.
On Thursday, Premier Alan Winde used his weekly energy Digicon to highlight the population growth and its impact on the province's budget. "This obviously has a massive impact on budgetary. It has an impact on providing services, and these numbers now enable us to rework where we are in our financial position," he said. Christopher Fry, the DA Western Cape spokesperson on premier and constitutional matters, said the Census data supported the notion that the time has come to pay the Western Cape what it is owed.
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