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  1. Municipalities
  2. Dipaleseng

Local Municipality

Dipaleseng

R320.0 million

Total value of 2 documented incidents

MP · BalfourMP306

Gert Sibande District Municipality

Category

Local Municipality

Province

MP

Documented incidents

2

Seat

Balfour

  • Score
  • Incidents
  • Leadership
  • Demographics
  • Water
  • Politics
  • Grants
  • Tenders
  • Trajectory
  • Financials
  • Budget
  • Debtors
  • Irregularities
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%
60/1002 incidents on record

Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.

Linked incidents

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

Municipal Collapse2024

Dipaleseng (Balfour): R160M Environmental Fine for Six Years of Sewage Spills

ProvenRamaphosa EraCivil Recovery

R160 million

Municipal Collapse2009

Dipaleseng: The Balfour Water Crisis

DocumentedZuma EraNo Action

R160 million

Leadership

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

Mayor

Ms Nomacala Beryl Khanye

nbkhanye@gmail.com

Municipal Manager

Mr Lwazi Cindi

cindil@dipaleseng.com

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Mokgopane Hendrik Thokoane

mokgopane80@icloud.com

Speaker

Ms B N Nkosi

dipaleseng@worldonline.co.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

35 980

Households

17 311

Unemployment

37.2%

Electricity90.2%
Piped water90.6%
Flush toilet89.6%
Refuse collected84.4%

Documented exposure: R9k per resident

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 Gert Sibande 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

R133.3M

Actually spent

R40.5M

Unspent

R92.8M

Utilisation

30.4%Severely underspent

R41M spent
R93M unspent
30% spent70% 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
R100.0M 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.

R102MR204MR306MR407M2020 UIFW · R34M · irregular R27M · fruitless R7M2021 UIFW · R29M · irregular R3M · unauthorised R26M2022 UIFW · R147M · irregular R77M · fruitless R18M · unauthorised R52M2023 UIFW · R407M · irregular R118M · fruitless R29M · unauthorised R260M2024 UIFW · R296M · irregular R26M · fruitless R30M · unauthorised R241M2020 audit · Disclaimer2021 audit · Disclaimer2022 audit · Qualified2023 audit · Qualified2024 audit · Qualified2024: incident #12020202120222023202420252026Clean auditQualifiedDisclaimer / adverseUIFW expenditure (bars)Documented incidentsSection 139 imposed

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

R773k

Net assets

R501.5M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R65.3M

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
R25.8M
Fruitless
R29.9M
Unauthorised
R240.5M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR41.6M
Adjusted budgetR52.6M
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)

R961.4M

R868.6M (90%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R134.5M
Electricity
R121.6M
Property rates
R112.8M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R521.2M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R177.4M
Bulk water
R31.0M
Trade
R309.6M
AGSA Material Irregularities

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

7 material irregularities on record

Likely substantial harm to general public — notified 2023-11-24

Unresolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - invoked our powers / Not appropriate actions - Invoked our powers

Source

Likely substantial harm to general public — notified 2024-01-25

Unresolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - invoked our powers / Not appropriate actions - Invoked our powers

Source

Likely substantial harm to general public — notified 2024-03-14

Unresolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - invoked our powers / Not appropriate actions - Invoked our powers

Source

Likely substantial harm to general public — notified 2024-04-11

Unresolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - invoked our powers / Not appropriate actions - Invoked our powers

Source

Likely substantial harm to general public — notified 2024-06-27

Unresolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - invoked our powers / Not appropriate actions - Invoked our powers

Source

Substantial harm to public sector institution — notified 2022-05-09

Resolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods

Source

Likely material financial loss — notified 2023-06-12

Resolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved

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.