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  1. Municipalities
  2. Richtersveld

Local Municipality

Richtersveld

NC · Port NollothNC061

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

Port Nolloth

  • 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/ 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 Cornell Charvette Knoph

ccknoph@gmail.com

Municipal Manager

Mr Joseph Gerhardus Cloete

josephc@richtersveld.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mrs Dineo Moshobane

dineom@richtersveld.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

24 235

Households

4 860

Unemployment

18.6%

Electricity98.8%
Piped water99.3%
Flush toilet93.3%
Refuse collected92.6%
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 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

R17.2M

Actually spent

R15.9M

Unspent

R1.3M

Utilisation

92.3%Mostly spent

R16M spent
92% spent8% 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
R25.2M 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.

R23MR47MR70MR93M2020 UIFW · R27M · irregular R7M · fruitless R1M · unauthorised R19M2021 UIFW · R28M · irregular R8M · unauthorised R20M2022 UIFW · R93M · irregular R39M · fruitless R3M · unauthorised R51M2023 UIFW · R38M · irregular R8M · fruitless R6M · unauthorised R23M2024 UIFW · R22M · irregular R4M · fruitless R3M · unauthorised R15M2020 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

R21k

Net assets

R90.7M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R1.5M

National Treasury & AGSA

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

Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24

Qualified

Irregular
R4.0M
Fruitless
R3.2M
Unauthorised
R14.8M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR37.9M
Adjusted budgetR41.0M
Actual—

Treasury §71·76d agoTreasury MTREF·12d agoAGSA MFMA·today

Aged Balances — FY24/25[pre-audit]

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)

R166.3M

R149.0M (90%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R41.0M
Electricity
R7.7M
Property rates
R54.4M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R105.4M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R84.8M
Bulk water
R319k
Trade
R10.4M
AGSA Material Irregularities

Section 4(3) MI register — specific findings the Auditor-General has flagged for active investigation, recommendations, or referral to law enforcement.

1 material irregularity on record

Likely substantial harm to public sector institution — notified 2024-02-21

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.