The Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works is a department of the

Government of the Western Cape The Western Cape province of South Africa is governed in a parliamentary system in which the people elect the Provincial Parliament, and the parliament elects the Premier as head of the executive. The Premier leads a cabinet of provincial min ...

. It is responsible for the development of the

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, an ...

system in the

Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

province of South Africa, and for constructing and maintaining

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s and other

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for the other departments of the provincial government. The political leader of the department is the Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works, this is

Bonginkosi Madikizela Bonginkosi Success Madikizela (born 15 March 1975) is a South African politician. Born in Port Shepstone, in the province of Natal, Madikizela soon moved to Khayelitsha and became politically active in the area. He was a member of the African N ...

of the Democratic Alliance. The administrative head is the Superintendent-General of Transport and Public Works, this is Jacqui Gooch. In the 2017/18 financial year, the department had 2,309 employees and a budget of R7,426,579,000.

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{{Authority control Government of the Western Cape, Transport and Public Works

Ministries established in 1994 Transport in the Western Cape Transport organisations based in South Africa

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