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  1. Municipalities
  2. Waterberg

District Municipality

Waterberg

LP · ModimolleDC36

No corruption incidents linked to this municipality on the 4FactSake archive yet. Live audit + finance data ships in Phase 2.

Category

District Municipality

Province

LP

Documented incidents

0

Seat

Modimolle

  • Score
  • Leadership
  • 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%
100/100no incidents linked

Missing components (capex) excluded; remaining weights renormalised.

Local municipalities in this district

Each Category B local municipality below sits under this district.

Bela-Bela

LP366 · Bela-Bela

Lephalale

LP362 · Lephalale

Modimolle-Mookgophong

LP365 · Modimolle

Mogalakwena

LP367 · Mokopane

Thabazimbi

LP361 · Thabazimbi

Leadership

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

Mayor

Mr Cllr JM Maeko

jmaeko@waterberg.gov.za

Municipal Manager

Mr Preciousstone Raputsoa

praputsoa@waterberg.gov.za

Chief Financial Officer

Mr TP Tebjani

ttebjani@waterberg.gov.za

Speaker

Ms Cllr Sarah Lamola

slamola@waterberg.gov.za
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

R37.2M

Actually spent

R3.3M

Unspent

R33.9M

Utilisation

8.8%Critical underspend

R34M unspent
9% spent91% 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
R150.7M 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.

R1MR3MR4MR6M2020 UIFW · R6M · irregular R6M · fruitless R10K2021 UIFW · R1M · irregular R1M2020 audit · Clean (with caveat)2021 audit · Clean2022 audit · Clean2023 audit · Clean (with caveat)2024 audit · Clean2020202120222023202420252026Clean 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

R201k

Net assets

R5.9M

Operating cash flow

—

Repairs & maintenance

—

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
R0
Fruitless
R0
Unauthorised
R0
AGSA report

Capital Spending — FY25/26

Original budgetR5.6M
Adjusted budgetR6.7M
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)

R21k

Water
R0
Electricity
R0
Property rates
R0

Owed BY the muni (creditors)

R136k

Bulk electricity(Eskom)
R0
Bulk water
R0
Trade
R136k

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.