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  1. Municipalities
  2. Tsantsabane

Local Municipality

Tsantsabane

NC · PostmasburgNC085

ZF Mgcawu 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

Postmasburg

  • 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/ 100Decaying
Audit67%
0/100disclaimer
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 Helena English

helena.english66@gmail.com or tlm.mayor@tsantsaban

Municipal Manager

Mr HG Mathobela

mm@tsantsabane.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Butsile Jeffrey Moselelane

cfo@tsantsabane.gov.za

Speaker

Mr Elroy Phete

enjade@webmail.co.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

30 969

Households

14 078

Unemployment

26.1%

Electricity92.0%
Piped water88.0%
Flush toilet85.4%
Refuse collected78.3%
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 ZF Mgcawu 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

R64.6M

Actually spent

R23.0M

Unspent

R41.5M

Utilisation

35.7%Severely underspent

R23M spent
R42M unspent
36% spent64% 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
R55.3M 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.

R37MR74MR111MR147M2020 UIFW · R112M · irregular R14M · fruitless R15M · unauthorised R83M2021 UIFW · R45M · unauthorised R45M2022 UIFW · R115M · irregular R19M · fruitless R39M · unauthorised R57M2023 UIFW · R81M · irregular R16M · fruitless R21M · unauthorised R44M2024 UIFW · R147M · irregular R10M · fruitless R43M · unauthorised R95M2020 audit · Qualified2021 audit · Qualified2022 audit · Qualified2023 audit · Qualified2024 audit · Disclaimer2020202120222023202420252026Clean auditQualifiedDisclaimer / adverseUIFW expenditure (bars)Documented incidentsSection 139 imposed

Audit opinion has degraded from Qualified (2020) to Disclaimer (2024).

Financial Health — FY24/25

Cash position, solvency, and infrastructure-maintenance signal. Source: National Treasury cflow_v2 + financial_position_v2 + repmaint_v2.

Cash on hand

R10.6M

Net assets

R222.7M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R2.4M

National Treasury & AGSA

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

Latest Audit Outcome — FY23/24

Disclaimer of opinion

Irregular
R9.6M
Fruitless
R42.7M
Unauthorised
R95.1M

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR83.3M
Adjusted budgetR85.2M
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)

R464.1M

R411.0M (89%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R84.8M
Electricity
R8.3M
Property rates
R80.9M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R555.6M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R381.9M
Bulk water
R137.2M
Trade
R24.4M
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 2025-05-07

Unresolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Appropriate action not taken - invoked our powers / Not appropriate actions - Invoked our powers

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.