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  1. Municipalities
  2. Impendle

Local Municipality

Impendle

KZN · ImpendleKZN224

uMgungundlovu 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

KZN

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Impendle

  • 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%
80/100unqualified emphasis of matter
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 Kwenzakufani Melchor Dlamini

cllrdlamini@impendlle.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Zakhele C. Tshabalala

zakhelet@impendle.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Ms Sibongile Shezi

nkosinomusam@impendle.gov.za

Speaker

Mr Sizwe Ndlela

sizwe.ndlela5@gmail.com; sizwen@impendle.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

36 648

Households

7 030

Unemployment

45.1%

Electricity97.0%
Piped water64.7%
Flush toilet15.8%
Refuse collected11.8%
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 uMgungundlovu 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

R75.4M

Actually spent

R68.9M

Unspent

R6.5M

Utilisation

91.4%Mostly spent

R69M spent
91% spent9% 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
R48.0M 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.

R15MR30MR44MR59M2020 UIFW · R3M · irregular R3M · fruitless R1K2021 UIFW · R20M · irregular R4M · unauthorised R16M2022 UIFW · R26M · irregular R12M · fruitless R2K · unauthorised R14M2023 UIFW · R17M · irregular R6M · fruitless R20K · unauthorised R10M2024 UIFW · R59M · irregular R18M · fruitless R132K · unauthorised R41M2020 audit · Clean (with caveat)2021 audit · Clean (with caveat)2022 audit · Clean (with caveat)2023 audit · Clean (with caveat)2024 audit · Clean (with caveat)2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R-11.0M

Net assets

R129.9M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R1.8M

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 - Emphasis of Matter items

Irregular
R17.9M
Fruitless
R132k
Unauthorised
R41.0M

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR40.7M
Adjusted budgetR40.8M
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)

R24.2M

R17.2M (71%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R0
Electricity
R143k
Property rates
R21.7M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R370k

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R370k

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.