As in the past few years, SANGONeT presents you with comments and perspectives of various South African civil society organisations in response to the budget. The comments focus on specific issues in the National Budget relevant to the organisations’ core work and areas of interest and/or their observations about the 2012/13 National Budget in general. Issues covered in these contributions range from key development priorities such as education, governance, gender, health and economic justice and poverty, among others.

The following NGOs have commented on the budget (click on the name of organisation):

• Alternative Information Development Centre
• Border Rural Committee
• Cancer Association of South Africa
• Catholic Welfare and Development
• CBDP
• Centre for Early Childhood Development
• Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa
• Community Development Resource Association
• Council for the Advancement of the Constitution
• Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa
• Eastern Cape NGO Coalition
• Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation
• Gauteng Welfare and Social Services Forum
  
• Gender Links
• Greenpeace Africa
• Heifer International South Africa
• Helen Suzman Foundation
• HIV-911
• Idasa
• Institute for Security Studies
• Jo’burg Child Welfare
• MIET Africa
• Nurturing Orphans of Aids for Humanity
• Papillon Foundation
• People Opposing Women Abuse
• People’s Budget Coalition
• SECTION27
• Siyakhula Trust
• Sonke Gender Justice Network
• South African National Council for the Blind
• South African National Zakah Fund
• South African Students Congress
• Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference Parliamentary Liaison Office
• Trust for Christian Outreach and Education
• Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre
• Uitenhage Mental Health
• Umcebo Design
• WWF South Africa

Organisations wishing to submit contributions can still e-mail them to info@sangonet.org.za.