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  1. Municipalities
  2. Maquassi Hills

Local Municipality

Maquassi Hills

NW · WolmaransstadNW404

Dr Kenneth Kaunda 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

NW

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Wolmaransstad

  • Score
  • Leadership
  • Demographics
  • Water
  • Politics
  • Grants
  • Tenders
  • Trajectory
  • Financials
  • Budget
  • Debtors
  • Irregularities
Accountability IndexDraft

Composite 0–100 score (higher = better), from audit opinion, capex execution and linked incidents.

0/ 100Decaying
Audit67%
20/100adverse
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

Cllr Mzwandile Feliti

felitim74@gmail.com

Municipal Manager

Mrs Nokuthula Mbonani

mbonanin@maquassihills.org

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Ariel Madisha

arielm@maquassihills.org

Speaker

Cllr DM Notwane

madaphgouws@gmail.com
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

90 302

Households

26 298

Unemployment

33.4%

Electricity93.9%
Piped water86.2%
Flush toilet89.1%
Refuse collected49.6%
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 Dr Kenneth Kaunda 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

R117.5M

Actually spent

R90.3M

Unspent

R27.2M

Utilisation

76.8%Underspent

R90M spent
R27M unspent
77% spent23% 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
R172.0M 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.

R91MR181MR272MR363M2020 UIFW · R363M · irregular R18M · fruitless R4M · unauthorised R340M2021 UIFW · R146M · irregular R110M · fruitless R3M · unauthorised R33M2022 UIFW · R233M · irregular R170M · fruitless R5M · unauthorised R57M2023 UIFW · R57M · irregular R25M · fruitless R8M · unauthorised R24M2024 UIFW · R249M · irregular R34M · fruitless R9M · unauthorised R207M2020 audit · Disclaimer2021 audit · Disclaimer2022 audit · Disclaimer2023 audit · Disclaimer2024 audit · Adverse2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R18.7M

Net assets

R1.02B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R40.5M

National Treasury & AGSA

Public finance data ingested directly from National Treasury cubes (incexp_v2, capital_v2, audit_opinions, uifwexp).

Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24

Adverse opinion

Irregular
R34.2M
Fruitless
R8.6M
Unauthorised
R206.7M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR194.8M
Adjusted budget—
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)

R2.59B

R2.22B (86%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R723.8M
Electricity
R100.5M
Property rates
R257.2M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R1.08B

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R350.3M
Bulk water
R280.5M
Trade
R23.9M
AGSA Material Irregularities

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

Substantial harm to general public — notified 2024-11-26

Recommendations Made

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action being taken to resolve MI / Appropriate actions - follow-up not yet due

Source

Substantial harm to public sector institution — notified 2021-06-11

Resolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved

Source

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.