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  1. Municipalities
  2. Senqu

Local Municipality

Senqu

EC · Lady GreyEC142

Joe Gqabi 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

EC

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Lady Grey

  • 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

Mrs N.P Mposelwa

mposelwa11@gmail.com

Municipal Manager

Mr Thembinkosi Mawonga

mawongat@senqu.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr K Fourie

fouriek@senqu.gov.za

Speaker

Mr V.V. Stokhwe

Ikemosisili@gmail.com
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

147 073

Households

35 852

Unemployment

35.5%

Electricity96.1%
Piped water65.5%
Flush toilet40.4%
Refuse collected37.8%
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 Joe Gqabi 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

R100.6M

Actually spent

R66.0M

Unspent

R34.6M

Utilisation

65.6%Underspent

R66M spent
R35M unspent
66% spent34% 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
R186.8M 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.

R10MR19MR29MR39M2020 UIFW · R10M · irregular R10M · fruitless R6K2021 UIFW · R553K · irregular R498K · fruitless R55K2022 UIFW · R120K · irregular R120K2023 UIFW · R39M · irregular R37M · fruitless R2M2024 UIFW · R8M · irregular R6M · fruitless R61K · unauthorised R2M2020 audit · Clean2021 audit · Clean2022 audit · Clean (with caveat)2023 audit · Clean2024 audit · Clean2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R475.9M

Net assets

R1.02B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R17.0M

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
R5.8M
Fruitless
R61k
Unauthorised
R2.0M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR181.0M
Adjusted budgetR176.1M
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)

R141.4M

R109.1M (77%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R0
Electricity
R41.4M
Property rates
R38.7M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R36.4M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R11k
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R24.1M

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.