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  1. Municipalities
  2. Karoo Hoogland

Local Municipality

Karoo Hoogland

NC · WillistonNC066

Namakwa 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

NC

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Williston

  • 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/ 100Strained
Audit67%
50/100qualified
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 Vincent Opperman

mayor@karoohoogland.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Johannes Jonkers

munman@karoohoogland.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Kagisho Maruping

cfo@karoohoogland.gov.za

Speaker

Ms Veruschska Charlene Wentzel

mayorv@karoohoogland.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

11 691

Households

5 280

Unemployment

14.6%

Electricity94.8%
Piped water99.4%
Flush toilet69.7%
Refuse collected95.9%
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 Namakwa 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

R27.1M

Actually spent

R24.1M

Unspent

R3.0M

Utilisation

88.9%Mostly spent

R24M spent
89% spent11% 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
R32.8M 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.

R8MR15MR23MR30M2020 UIFW · R11M · irregular R1M · fruitless R19K · unauthorised R9M2021 UIFW · R19M · irregular R9M · fruitless R1K · unauthorised R11M2022 UIFW · R15M · irregular R1M · fruitless R93K · unauthorised R14M2023 UIFW · R30M · irregular R200K · fruitless R441K · unauthorised R30M2024 UIFW · R18M · irregular R676K · fruitless R460K · unauthorised R17M2020 audit · Clean (with caveat)2021 audit · Clean (with caveat)2022 audit · Clean (with caveat)2023 audit · Clean (with caveat)2024 audit · Qualified2020202120222023202420252026Clean auditQualifiedDisclaimer / adverseUIFW expenditure (bars)Documented incidentsSection 139 imposed

Audit opinion has degraded from Clean (with caveat) (2020) to Qualified (2024).

Financial Health — FY24/25

Cash position, solvency, and infrastructure-maintenance signal. Source: National Treasury cflow_v2 + financial_position_v2 + repmaint_v2.

Cash on hand

R16.9M

Net assets

R288.4M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R838k

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
R676k
Fruitless
R460k
Unauthorised
R16.6M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR47.8M
Adjusted budgetR45.3M
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)

R60.2M

R50.0M (83%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R15.8M
Electricity
R4.8M
Property rates
R13.9M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

—

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
—
Bulk water
—
Trade
—

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.