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  1. Municipalities
  2. Stellenbosch

Local Municipality

Stellenbosch

R5,550

Total value of 1 documented incidents

WC · StellenboschWC024

Cape Winelands District Municipality

Category

Local Municipality

Province

WC

Documented incidents

1

Seat

Stellenbosch

  • 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/ 100Functioning
Audit67%
100/100unqualified
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.

Transport Corruption2026

Stellenbosch: Senior Traffic Official Jailed Six Years for Selling Driver's Licences — R5,550 in Bribes

ProvenRamaphosa EraConvicted & Sentenced

R5,550 (bribes, court record)

Leadership

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

Mayor

Cllr Jeremy Fasser

mayor@stellenbosch.gov.za

Deputy Mayor

Cllr Mynard Slabbert (DA)

mynard.slabbert@stellenbosch.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Ms Ms Geraldine Mettler

Geraldine.Mettler@stellenbosch.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Mr Kevin Carolus

Kevin.Carolus@stellenbosch.gov.za

Speaker

Mr Donovan Joubert

donovanjoubert@stellenbosch.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

175 411

Households

61 827

Unemployment

15.2%

Electricity96.9%
Piped water90.9%
Flush toilet96.8%
Refuse collected88.8%

Documented exposure: R0 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 Cape Winelands 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

R165.2M

Actually spent

R115.6M

Unspent

R49.5M

Utilisation

70.0%Underspent

R116M spent
R50M unspent
70% spent30% 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
R200.8M 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.

R22MR45MR67MR90M2020 UIFW · R31M · irregular R31M2021 UIFW · R90M · irregular R90M2022 UIFW · R49M · irregular R45M · fruitless R4M2023 UIFW · R38M · irregular R38M2024 UIFW · R12M · irregular R12M2020 audit · Clean2021 audit · Clean2022 audit · Clean2023 audit · Clean2024 audit · Clean2026: incident #12020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R549.5M

Net assets

R6.28B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R107.2M

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
R12.4M
Fruitless
R0
Unauthorised
R0
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR1.02B
Adjusted budgetR964.6M
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)

R471.4M

R282.5M (60%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R144.8M
Electricity
R82.4M
Property rates
R54.2M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R40.7M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R10.2M

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.