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    Political transformation and the budget process: issues and considerations from the Western Cape Provincial Government - 1997198 budget
    (University of the Western Cape, 1998) Wort Logan
    This research report is a study of political transformation and the budget process, with specific reference to the Western Cape provincial budget of 1997/98. The study considers the macroeconomic framework, constitutional and institutional parameters within which the budget process takes place at both a national and provincial level. The study places the Western Cape provincial budget process within the same context and, in particular. considers how it measures against the requirements of national transformation as envisaged in the Reconstruction and Development programme (RDP) and the Growth Employment and Redistribution Strategy Gear) amongst others. The study makes extensive use of primary source documents, secondary source documents and in-depth interviews. The author was involved in direct participant observation to enable him to gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and issues of budgets and transformation. In essence the study offers issues and considerations for improved budgetary processes within the Western Cape Provincial Government.