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  1. Municipalities
  2. Dihlabeng

Local Municipality

Dihlabeng

R0

Total value of 1 documented incidents

FS · BethlehemFS192

Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality

Category

Local Municipality

Province

FS

Documented incidents

1

Seat

Bethlehem

  • Score
  • Incidents
  • Leadership
  • Demographics
  • Water
  • Politics
  • Grants
  • Tenders
  • Trajectory
  • Financials
  • Budget
  • Debtors
Accountability IndexDraft

Composite 0–100 score (higher = better), from audit opinion, capex execution and linked incidents.

0/ 100Strained
Audit67%
50/100qualified
Capex—
n/acapex data not yet available
Incidents33%
80/1001 incident on record

Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.

Linked incidents

Corruption incidents documented in the 4FactSake archive and linked to this municipality.

Infrastructure Theft2022

Dihlabeng Municipality: Water Infrastructure Deliberately Sabotaged, Former MM Arrested

DocumentedRamaphosa EraProsecution

Leadership

Current municipal officials accountable for governance and finance, sourced from National Treasury.

Mayor

Cllr Tseki J Tseki

executivemayor@dihlabeng.co.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Mohau Ntheli

municipalmanager@dihlabeng.co.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Raymond Provis

cfo@dihlabeng.co.za

Speaker

Mr P D Lengoabala

speaker@dihlabeng.co.za
Demographics — Census 2022

Per-capita normalisation lets us put the financial figures into human terms.

Population

130 434

Households

52 940

Unemployment

28.7%

Electricity93.9%
Piped water94.2%
Flush toilet91.2%
Refuse collected83.3%
Water — Blue / Green / No Drop

DWS scores measure Water Service Authorities. This local muni delegates water services to its district.

Water service is provided by Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality. See that page for Blue / Green / No Drop scores.
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

R158.1M

Actually spent

R82.3M

Unspent

R75.8M

Utilisation

52.0%Severely underspent

R82M spent
R76M unspent
52% spent48% 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
R230.5M 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.

R147MR294MR441MR588M2020 UIFW · R321M · irregular R130M · fruitless R37M · unauthorised R155M2021 UIFW · R428M · irregular R151M · fruitless R21M · unauthorised R256M2022 UIFW · R574M · irregular R257M · fruitless R41M · unauthorised R276M2023 UIFW · R586M · irregular R172M · fruitless R76M · unauthorised R338M2024 UIFW · R588M · irregular R208M · fruitless R93M · unauthorised R287M2020 audit · Qualified2021 audit · Qualified2022 audit · Qualified2023 audit · Not submitted2024 audit · Qualified2022: incident #12020202120222023202420252026Clean auditQualifiedDisclaimer / adverseUIFW expenditure (bars)Documented incidentsSection 139 imposed
Financial Health — FY24/25

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

Cash on hand

R34.6M

Net assets

R1.47B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R38.0M

National Treasury & AGSA

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

Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24

Qualified

Irregular
R207.6M
Fruitless
R93.4M
Unauthorised
R287.2M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR303.6M
Adjusted budgetR326.1M
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)

R1.92B

R1.52B (79%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R374.2M
Electricity
R93.9M
Property rates
R202.6M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R1.49B

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R1.25B
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R8.9M

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.