Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday tabled his budget in the National Assembly.
Here are some highlights at a glance.
* Education and culture will continue to receive the largest share of South Africa's 2019 budget, with basic education allocated R262.4 billion in the next financial year.
* South Africa's National Treasury on Wednesday cut the economic growth forecast for 2019 to 1.5 percent from its previous prediction of 1.7 percent.
* The national budget will allocate R1.8 billion for 262 priority land reform projects over the next three years and a further R3.7 billion will go to emerging farmers seeking to acquire land.
* Troubled power utility Eskom will get an additional R69 billion from the state over the next three years to help it service its debt.
* Government has allocated R567 billion for social grant payments.
According to the budget review, the old age grant will increase from R1,695 a month to R1,780, while war veterans will see their grants increase from R1,715 to R1,800.
The disability grant will be hiked by R85, from R1,695 to R1,780, the foster care grant from R960 to R1,000, the care dependency grant from R1,695 to R1,780 and the child support grant from R405 to R425.
* Government has allocated R19.8 billion for industrial business incentives, of which R600 million has gone to clothing and textile competitiveness programme. This will support 35 500 existing jobs and create about 25 000 new jobs over the next 3 years
* South Africa will increase spending on its National Health Insurance programme at an average annual rate of 36.6 percent, from R1.2 billion in 2018/19 to R3 billion in 2021/22.
* South Africa's government has infrastructure investment plans amounting to R526 billion over the next three years and is stepping up its build programme by partnering with the private sector, development finance institutions and multilateral development banks for funding
