Department of Water and Sanitation incentive-based regulation. Each drop is graded Excellent → Critical (fuller drop = better); a numeric 0–100 score shows once DWS publishes one.

Blue Drop

Drinking water

Excellent

2023

Green Drop

Wastewater

Awaiting assessment

No Drop

Water loss (NRW)

Awaiting assessment

Source · DWS Blue / Green / No Drop reports — see methodology & sources panel below.

Political control (IEC)

Who is currently running this municipality, and what the most recent council election produced.

Currently running

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%

DA135seats(58.4%)majority

ANC43seats(18.6%)

EFF10seats(4.3%)

OTH10seats(4.3%)

GOOD9seats(3.9%)

CCC7seats(3.0%)

ACDP6seats(2.6%)

FF+4seats(1.7%)

+2 smaller parties

Conditional grants (Treasury)

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

R2.78B

Utilisation

49.9%Severely underspent

R2.78B spent

R2.78B unspent

50% spent50% unspent

Largest conditional grants — box size = budget, colour = utilisation

Box size = budget · colour = utilisation (green = spent, red = underspent, hollow = no data). Hover a grant.

Equitable Share (unconditional)

ESG·Local Government Equitable Share

no data

R4.07B budgeted·— spent

ESG is not a conditional grant — it can be spent at the muni's discretion. Shown for scale only.

Tender awards (eTender Publication Portal)

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.

Accountability trajectory · 2020 – 2026

The line traces the audit opinion (higher = cleaner); bars are irregular/fruitless/unauthorised expenditure, dots are documented incidents, and dashed markers are Section 139 interventions. Sustained decline rarely happens in a single bad year.

Audit opinion has improved over the period.

Financial Health — FY24/25

Cash position, solvency, and infrastructure-maintenance signal. Source: National Treasury cflow_v2 + financial_position_v2 + repmaint_v2.

Cash on hand

R16.61B

Net assets

R67.83B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R804.8M

National Treasury & AGSA

Public finance data ingested directly from National Treasury cubes (incexp_v2, capital_v2, audit_opinions, uifwexp).

Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24

Unqualified - No findings

Irregular: R634.3M
Fruitless: R0
Unauthorised: R0

AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR23.85B

Adjusted budgetR24.58B

Actual—

Treasury §71·76d agoTreasury MTREF·12d agoAGSA MFMA·today

Aged Balances — FY24/25

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)

R8.67B

R3.96B (46%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water: R2.42B
Electricity: R1.87B
Property rates: R2.35B

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R-44.8M

Bulk electricity(Eskom): R0
Bulk water: R0
Trade: R-302k

AGSA Material Irregularities

Section 4(3) MI register — specific findings the Auditor-General has flagged for active investigation, recommendations, or referral to law enforcement.

2 material irregularities on record

Material financial loss — notified 2020-05-17

Resolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods

Source

Material financial loss — notified 2020-05-17

Resolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods

Source

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. It currently weighs three of four intended signals — audit opinion (50%), capital-budget execution (25%) and linked corruption incidents (25%); a fourth pillar, service delivery (Stats SA non-financial census), is not yet wired in. Where a signal is missing for a municipality, its weight is renormalised across the rest.