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Metropolitan Municipality
R8.5 billion
Total value of 2 documented incidents
Composite 0–100 score (higher = better), from audit opinion, capex execution and linked incidents.
Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.
Corruption incidents documented in the 4FactSake archive and linked to this municipality.
Current municipal officials accountable for governance and finance, sourced from National Treasury.
Per-capita normalisation lets us put the financial figures into human terms.
Population
1 190 496
Households
406 720
Unemployment
36.6%
Documented exposure: R7k per resident
Who is currently running this municipality, and what the most recent council election produced.
Status
Hung council
Since
22 Nov 2021
No party won a majority in 2021 LGE; multiple coalition shifts. OPERATOR: update with current mayor + coalition.
Local Government Elections 2021
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
R1.64B
Actually spent
R878.7M
Unspent
R765.0M
Utilisation
53.5%Severely underspent
Largest conditional grants — box size = budget, colour = utilisation
Equitable Share (unconditional)
ESG is not a conditional grant — it can be spent at the muni's discretion. Shown for scale only.
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.
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.
Cash position, solvency, and infrastructure-maintenance signal. Source: National Treasury cflow_v2 + financial_position_v2 + repmaint_v2.
Cash on hand
R3.81B
Net assets
R21.05B
Operating cash flow
—
Repairs & maintenance
R516.5M
Public finance data ingested directly from National Treasury cubes (incexp_v2, capital_v2, audit_opinions, uifwexp).
Capital Spending — FY25/26
Treasury §71·76d agoTreasury MTREF·12d agoAGSA MFMA·1d ago
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)
R20.42B
Owed BY the muni (creditors)
R2.66B
Section 4(3) MI register — specific findings the Auditor-General has flagged for active investigation, recommendations, or referral to law enforcement.
9 material irregularities on record
Substantial harm to general public — notified 2024-02-26
UnresolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - Decision on Invoking powers in process / Not appropriate action - submission to MIU in process
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2025-10-15
UnresolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - Decision on Invoking powers in process / Not appropriate action - submission to MIU in process
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2019-12-09
ResolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2019-12-13
ResolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2021-09-01
UnresolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - Decision on Invoking powers in process / Not appropriate action - submitted to MIU
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2022-11-25
UnresolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - Decision on Invoking powers in process / Not appropriate action - submitted to MIU
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2019-12-13
ResolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2019-12-13
ResolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved
SourceLikely material financial loss — notified 2022-11-23
ResolvedFY24/25
AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods
SourceMethodology & 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); AGSA Section 4(3) Material Irregularities and Stats SA Census 2022 demographics as published on the Auditor-General’s MFMA 2024-25 results portal (status and notification date per irregularity; AGSA does not publish amounts per irregularity there); and operator-curated 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.