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  1. Municipalities
  2. Garden Route

District Municipality

Garden Route

WC · GeorgeDC4

No corruption incidents linked to this municipality on the 4FactSake archive yet. Live audit + finance data ships in Phase 2.

Category

District Municipality

Province

WC

Documented incidents

0

Seat

George

  • Score
  • Leadership
  • 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/ 100Functioning
Audit67%
100/100unqualified
Capex—
n/acapex data not yet available
Incidents33%
100/100no incidents linked

Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.

Local municipalities in this district

Each Category B local municipality below sits under this district.

Bitou

WC047 · Plettenberg Bay

George

WC044 · George

Hessequa

WC042 · Riversdale

Kannaland

WC041 · Ladismith

Knysna

WC048 · Knysna

Mossel Bay

WC043 · Mossel Bay

Oudtshoorn

WC045 · Oudtshoorn

Leadership

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

Mayor

Mr Marais Kruger

mayor@grdm.gov.za

Deputy Mayor

Mr Mr Vlancio Donson (ICOSA)

vdonson@edendm.co.za

Municipal Manager

Ms Nthabeleng Raisa-Mlandu

mm@gardenroute.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Mr Rian Boshoff

RianB@gardenroute.gov.za

Speaker

Mr Cllr Barend Groenewald

speaker@gardenroute.gov.za
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

R20.4M

Actually spent

R8.7M

Unspent

R11.8M

Utilisation

42.4%Severely underspent

1 conditional grant under 60% utilisation. ESG (Equitable Share) is excluded from this count.

R9M spent
R12M unspent
42% spent58% 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
R178.3M 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.

R22MR44MR66MR88M2020 UIFW · R88M · irregular R54M · fruitless R887 · unauthorised R34M2021 UIFW · R27M · irregular R25M · unauthorised R1M2022 UIFW · R20M · irregular R20M · fruitless R400K2023 UIFW · R24M · irregular R17M · fruitless R57K · unauthorised R7M2024 UIFW · R47M · irregular R35M · fruitless R92K · unauthorised R12M2020 audit · Clean (with caveat)2021 audit · Clean2022 audit · Clean2023 audit · Clean2024 audit · Clean2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R155.0M

Net assets

R216.1M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R11.4M

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
R35.1M
Fruitless
R92k
Unauthorised
R12.0M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR130.4M
Adjusted budgetR132.5M
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)

R90.5M

R45.6M (50%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R0
Electricity
R0
Property rates
R0

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R7.2M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R7.1M

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.