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  1. Municipalities
  2. Richmond Local Municipality (KZN)

Local Municipality

Richmond Local Municipality (KZN)

KZN · RichmondKZN227

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

Richmond

  • 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%
100/100unqualified
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 Melikhaya Knowledge Ngcongo

mk.ngcongo@gmail.com

Deputy Mayor

Cllr Badumile T. Mbanjwa

badumile.mbanjwa11@gmail.com

Municipal Manager

Mr B E Mswane

mm@richmond.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr M Ngcobo

msizi.ngcobo@richmond.gov.za

Speaker

Mr Samora Ndlovu

samorandlovu@gmail.com
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

62 754

Households

19 863

Unemployment

26.3%

Electricity97.8%
Piped water71.0%
Flush toilet22.7%
Refuse collected26.7%
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

R46.5M

Actually spent

R33.4M

Unspent

R13.1M

Utilisation

71.9%Underspent

R33M spent
R13M unspent
72% spent28% 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
R92.9M 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.

R7MR15MR22MR30M2020 UIFW · R27M · irregular R15M · fruitless R590K · unauthorised R12M2021 UIFW · R30M · irregular R23M · fruitless R465K · unauthorised R7M2022 UIFW · R4M · irregular R1M · fruitless R15K · unauthorised R2M2023 UIFW · R6K · fruitless R6K2024 UIFW · R498K · fruitless R498K2020 audit · Clean (with caveat)2021 audit · Clean (with caveat)2022 audit · Clean (with caveat)2023 audit · Clean (with caveat)2024 audit · Clean2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R20.6M

Net assets

R366.2M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R9.2M

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 - No findings

Irregular
R0
Fruitless
R498k
Unauthorised
R0
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR63.6M
Adjusted budgetR78.8M
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)

R53.8M

R47.3M (88%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R0
Electricity
R0
Property rates
R35.4M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R82k

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R82k

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.