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  1. Municipalities
  2. uMngeni

Local Municipality

uMngeni

KZN · HowickKZN222

uMgungundlovu 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

KZN

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Howick

  • 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%
80/100unqualified emphasis of matter
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 Chistopher Pappas

mayor@umngeni.gov.za

Deputy Mayor

Mr S Mnikathi

deputymayor@umngeni.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Mzingisi Hloba

Mzi.Hloba@umngeni.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Ms Baneli Msomi

baneli.msomi@umngeni.gov.za

Speaker

Cllr Dlamini

manager@umngeni.gov.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

105 069

Households

46 931

Unemployment

23.9%

Electricity94.4%
Piped water89.5%
Flush toilet83.0%
Refuse collected80.7%
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 uMgungundlovu 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

R68.1M

Actually spent

R59.8M

Unspent

R8.3M

Utilisation

87.9%Mostly spent

R60M spent
88% spent12% 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
R98.9M 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.

R31MR62MR94MR125M2020 UIFW · R125M · irregular R567 · fruitless R270K · unauthorised R125M2021 UIFW · R109M · irregular R22M · fruitless R647K · unauthorised R86M2022 UIFW · R45M · irregular R16M · fruitless R36K · unauthorised R28M2023 UIFW · R104M · irregular R3M · fruitless R6K · unauthorised R101M2024 UIFW · R3M · irregular R1M · fruitless R2M2020 audit · Qualified2021 audit · Qualified2022 audit · Clean (with caveat)2023 audit · Clean (with caveat)2024 audit · Clean (with caveat)2020202120222023202420252026Clean auditQualifiedDisclaimer / adverseUIFW expenditure (bars)Documented incidentsSection 139 imposed

Audit opinion has improved over the period.

Financial Health — FY24/25

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

Cash on hand

R29.5M

Net assets

R1.02B

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R32.8M

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 - Emphasis of Matter items

Irregular
R1.4M
Fruitless
R1.8M
Unauthorised
R0
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR211.1M
Adjusted budgetR220.4M
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)

R238.0M

R171.9M (72%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R0
Electricity
R17.3M
Property rates
R169.1M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R-109.8M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R41k

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.