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  1. Municipalities
  2. Hessequa

Local Municipality

Hessequa

WC · RiversdaleWC042

Garden Route District Municipality

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

Category

Local Municipality

Province

WC

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Riversdale

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

Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.

Leadership

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

Mayor

Mr Grant Riddles

mayor@hessequa.gov.za

Deputy Mayor

Mr Gerald Leonard Boezak

maycocomm@hessequa.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Albertus de Klerk

mm@hessequa.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Mr Gerard Goliath

gerard@hessequa.gov.za

Speaker

Mr Andrew Stroebel

andrew.hessequa@gmail.com
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

71 918

Households

18 839

Unemployment

14.1%

Electricity98.5%
Piped water97.9%
Flush toilet97.5%
Refuse collected93.9%
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 Garden Route 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

R64.9M

Actually spent

R42.1M

Unspent

R22.8M

Utilisation

64.9%Underspent

R42M spent
R23M unspent
65% spent35% 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
R59.2M 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.

R3MR6MR8MR11M2020 UIFW · R4M · irregular R117K · fruitless R49K · unauthorised R4M2021 UIFW · R3M · irregular R121K · unauthorised R3M2022 UIFW · R2K · irregular R2K2023 UIFW · R11M · irregular R5M · unauthorised R6M2024 UIFW · R5M · irregular R13K · fruitless R11K · unauthorised R5M2020 audit · Clean2021 audit · Clean2022 audit · Clean2023 audit · Clean2024 audit · Clean2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R439.0M

Net assets

R1.57B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R119.6M

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
R13k
Fruitless
R11k
Unauthorised
R5.5M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR364.0M
Adjusted budgetR381.3M
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)

R217.8M

Water
R20.6M
Electricity
R27.1M
Property rates
R15.1M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R64.8M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R33.5M

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.