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  1. Municipalities
  2. Mtubatuba

Local Municipality

Mtubatuba

R6.0 million

Total value of 1 documented incidents

KZN · MtubatubaKZN275

uMkhanyakude District Municipality

Category

Local Municipality

Province

KZN

Documented incidents

1

Seat

Mtubatuba

  • Score
  • Incidents
  • 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%
80/1001 incident on record

Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.

Linked incidents

Corruption incidents documented in the 4FactSake archive and linked to this municipality.

Municipal Collapse2015

Mtubatuba: Court Blocks an Unlawful Municipal-Manager Appointment, MFMA Intervention, Disclaimer, Council Dissolved — Under Intervention Again by 2023

DocumentedZuma EraInquiry

R6 million (bank overdraft at 2012 intervention, NCOP record)

Leadership

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

Mayor

Mr Cllr. Mxolisi Mthethwa

bayede.mxolisi2011@gmail.com

Deputy Mayor

Mr Cllr. Muziwenkosi Zwilenkosi Shobede

m.shobede@gmail.com

Municipal Manager

Mr Thamsanqa V. Xulu

municipalmanager@mtubatuba.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Vukani Kheneth Gumede

cfo@mtubatuba.gov.za

Speaker

Mrs M.M. Davis

speaker.mavisdavies@mtubatuba.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

215 869

Households

50 217

Unemployment

39.0%

Electricity97.3%
Piped water52.5%
Flush toilet29.8%
Refuse collected26.0%

Documented exposure: R28 per resident

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 uMkhanyakude 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

R103.8M

Actually spent

R63.0M

Unspent

R40.8M

Utilisation

60.7%Underspent

R63M spent
R41M unspent
61% spent39% 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
R232.8M 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.

R79MR158MR236MR315M2020 UIFW · R310M · irregular R256M · fruitless R1M · unauthorised R53M2021 UIFW · R217M · irregular R179M · fruitless R3M · unauthorised R34M2022 UIFW · R71M · irregular R24M · fruitless R982K · unauthorised R46M2023 UIFW · R160M · irregular R101M · fruitless R1M · unauthorised R58M2024 UIFW · R315M · irregular R275M · fruitless R3M · unauthorised R38M2020 audit · Qualified2021 audit · Qualified2022 audit · Qualified2023 audit · Qualified2024 audit · Qualified2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R4.1M

Net assets

R475.2M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R5.4M

National Treasury & AGSA

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

Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24

Qualified

Irregular
R274.5M
Fruitless
R2.7M
Unauthorised
R37.9M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR82.3M
Adjusted budgetR85.9M
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)

R286.3M

R223.6M (78%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R0
Electricity
R0
Property rates
R152.6M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R50.0M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R14.8M

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.