Metropolitan Municipality
R11.0 billion
Total value of 5 documented incidents
Corruption incidents documented in the 4FactSake archive and linked to this municipality.
R4 billion+
Unknown (institutional corruption)
R7 billion
R35 million
Current municipal officials accountable for governance and finance, sourced from National Treasury.
Department of Water and Sanitation incentive-based regulation scores. 0–100. Lower = worse.
Blue Drop
2023
Drinking water
—
excellentGreen Drop
Not yet assessed
No Drop
Not yet assessed
Source · DWS reports — see methodology & sources panel below.
Who is currently running this municipality, and what the most recent council election produced.
Currently running
DA
Status
Outright majority
Mayor
Geordin Hill-Lewis
Since
04 Nov 2021
DA secured outright majority in 2021 LGE with ~58% vote share
Local Government Elections 2021
Turnout: 46.6%
+2 smaller parties
National + provincial grants flowing to this muni. Conditional grants are tied to specific outcomes — underspend is a red flag for delivery, not a saving.
Latest year
23/24
Adjusted budget
R5.56B
Actually spent
R2.78B
Unspent
R0
Utilisation
49.9%Severely underspent
Largest conditional grants — adjusted budget
Equitable Share (unconditional)
ESG is not a conditional grant — it can be spent at the muni's discretion. Shown for scale only.
Cross-referenced against the Restricted Suppliers List on the award date.
No award notices on file for this municipality yet. Coverage expands as the operator transcribes from eTenders.gov.za.
Once awards are loaded, this panel surfaces every published contract awarded by the muni, with B-BBEE level, supplier registration, and a flag for any awards made to suppliers on the National Restricted Suppliers List.
Composite 0–100 score (higher = better). Draft methodology — review pending sensitivity testing.
Audit opinion, irregular/fruitless/unauthorised expenditure, and major events plotted year-on-year. Sustained decay rarely happens in a single bad year.
Audit opinion has improved over the period.
Cash position, solvency, and infrastructure-maintenance signal. Source: National Treasury cflow_v2 + financial_position_v2 + repmaint_v2.
Cash on hand
R12.71B
Net assets
—
Operating cash flow
—
Repairs & maintenance
R1.33B
Public finance data ingested directly from National Treasury cubes (incexp_v2, capital_v2, audit_opinions, uifwexp).
Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24
Unqualified - No findings
Capital Spending — FY24/25[pre-audit]
-35.5% vs budget
Treasury §71·49d agoTreasury MTREF·49d agoAGSA MFMA·today
Receivables from ratepayers (debtors) and amounts owed to suppliers (creditors). Source: National Treasury aged_debtor_v2 + aged_creditor_v2 cubes.
Owed TO the muni (receivables)
R9.94B
R4.88B (49%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable
Owed BY the muni (creditors)
R-37.7M
Methodology & sources
Live data from National Treasury cubes (incexp_v2, capital_v2, audit_opinions, uifwexp, aged_debtor_v2, aged_creditor_v2, cflow_v2, financial_position_v2, repmaint_v2, officials) and operator-curated AGSA Section 4(3) Material Irregularities, Stats SA Census, Cogta Section 139 intervention records, DWS Blue / Green / No Drop water-services audits, IEC Local Government Election results + political control history, and Treasury conditional grants (grants_v2) — allocation versus actual spend per grant. The Accountability Index methodology is a draft pending sensitivity testing — treat the score as a working signal, not a final verdict.