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  1. Municipalities
  2. Thembelihle

Local Municipality

Thembelihle

NC · HopetownNC076

Pixley ka Seme 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

Hopetown

  • 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/ 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 Marnus Visser

mayor@tlm.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Ms Kealeboga Gaborone

mm@tlm.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Ms Remofilwe Babeotjwejang

cfo@tlm.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

22 542

Households

5 105

Unemployment

28.4%

Electricity86.8%
Piped water87.8%
Flush toilet69.2%
Refuse collected50.6%
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 Pixley ka Seme 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

R25.4M

Actually spent

R23.4M

Unspent

R2.0M

Utilisation

92.3%Mostly spent

R23M 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
R36.1M 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.

R17MR35MR52MR70M2020 UIFW · R70M · irregular R24M · fruitless R8M · unauthorised R38M2021 UIFW · R15M · irregular R4M · unauthorised R11M2022 UIFW · R34M · irregular R27M · fruitless R7M2023 UIFW · R31M · irregular R8M · fruitless R8M · unauthorised R16M2024 UIFW · R65M · irregular R4M · fruitless R10M · unauthorised R51M2020 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

R52k

Net assets

R107.3M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R2.3M

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
R3.8M
Fruitless
R10.4M
Unauthorised
R50.6M
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR36.3M
Adjusted budgetR91.0M
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)

R126.3M

R121.6M (96%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R40.0M
Electricity
R10.7M
Property rates
R20.2M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R240.9M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R179.7M
Bulk water
R6k
Trade
R29.3M

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.