Metropolitan Municipality
R2.6 billion
Total value of 4 documented incidents
Composite 0–100 score (higher = better), from audit opinion, capex execution and linked incidents.
Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.
Corruption incidents documented in the 4FactSake archive and linked to this municipality.
R1.2 million (two alleged R600,000 salary increases; no aggregate loss figure)
R300 million
R2 billion
R332 million
Current municipal officials accountable for governance and finance, sourced from National Treasury.
Per-capita normalisation lets us put the financial figures into human terms.
Population
4 066 691
Households
1 550 738
Unemployment
28.8%
Documented exposure: R648 per resident
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
Excellent2023
Green Drop
Wastewater
Awaiting assessmentNo Drop
Water loss (NRW)
Awaiting assessmentSource · DWS Blue / Green / No Drop reports — see methodology & sources panel below.
Who is currently running this municipality, and what the most recent council election produced.
Status
Hung council
Since
22 Nov 2021
No party won a majority in 2021 LGE; coalition shifts since. OPERATOR: update with current mayor + coalition.
Local Government Elections 2021
Turnout: 43.7%
+1 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
R3.69B
Actually spent
R1.80B
Unspent
R1.89B
Utilisation
48.8%Severely underspent
Largest conditional grants — box size = budget, colour = utilisation
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.
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 degraded from Clean (2020) to Clean (with caveat) (2024).
Cash position, solvency, and infrastructure-maintenance signal. Source: National Treasury cflow_v2 + financial_position_v2 + repmaint_v2.
Cash on hand
R1.68B
Net assets
R52.30B
Operating cash flow
—
Repairs & maintenance
R3.52B
Public finance data ingested directly from National Treasury cubes (incexp_v2, capital_v2, audit_opinions, uifwexp).
Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24
Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
Capital Spending — FY25/26
Treasury §71·76d agoTreasury MTREF·12d 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)
R32.31B
R19.32B (60%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable
Owed BY the muni (creditors)
R3.36B
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
Likely material financial loss — notified 2025-12-08
IdentifiedFY24/25
AGSA action:Notified and awaiting response / Notified - Awaiting response
SourceLikely misuse of material public resource — notified 2024-12-12
Recommendations MadeFY24/25
AGSA action:Appropriate action being taken to resolve MI / Appropriate actions - implementation information requested
SourceMethodology & 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.