Public expenditure estimates for 1979-80 published in the budget in March 1979 for the main departments concerned with the administration and defence of apartheid are as follows (1978/9 figures in brackets)
Police/Justice R245.25m (R220.45m) Prisons R99.79m (R92.18m) Plural Relations (Bantu Admin) R461.75m (R555.26m) Defence R1,857.40m (R1,554.38m) Bantu Education R181.80m (R143.90m) White Education R354.11m (R326.33m)
