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  1. Municipalities
  2. Umsobomvu

Local Municipality

Umsobomvu

NC · ColesbergNC072

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

Colesberg

  • 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/ 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 Mzwandile Simon Toto

toto@umsobomvumun.co.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Themsile W Msengana

themsile@umsobomvumun.co.za

Chief Financial Officer

Ms Segomoco Jordan

sjordan@umsobomvumun.co.za
Demographics — Census 2022

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

Population

29 555

Households

11 097

Unemployment

33.0%

Electricity96.1%
Piped water97.1%
Flush toilet91.7%
Refuse collected88.5%
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

R27.1M

Actually spent

R22.4M

Unspent

R4.7M

Utilisation

82.7%Mostly spent

R22M spent
R5M unspent
83% spent17% 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
R69.6M 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 · R25M · irregular R3M · unauthorised R22M2021 UIFW · R39M · irregular R11M · unauthorised R28M2022 UIFW · R18M · irregular R17M · fruitless R570K2023 UIFW · R4M · irregular R2M · fruitless R2M2024 UIFW · R2M · irregular R1M · fruitless R682K2020 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

R5.5M

Net assets

R536.4M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

R5.3M

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
R1.1M
Fruitless
R682k
Unauthorised
R0
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR76.5M
Adjusted budgetR68.6M
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)

R473.6M

R374.0M (79%) over 1 year — effectively uncollectable

Water
R127.1M
Electricity
R36.2M
Property rates
R51.0M

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R22.1M

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R8.9M
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R419k
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 material financial loss — notified 2022-11-24

Resolved

FY24/25

AGSA action:Resolved MI / Resolved in prior periods

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.