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Buffalo City

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2024/25Municipal financial year
Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicator37,1 / 100Financial pressure
Reported expenditureR 12,1BNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure
Reported revenueR 10,3B

Reported operating balance is negative (-17,566%). This describes financial position, not service quality.

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Accountability · AGSA

Reporting and oversight

Latest preserved audit opinionQualified2024-25

Source audit opinion wording retained exactly; not a corruption finding.

Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026

3 explicit SCM finding flags and 0 explicit No flags in this period. Missing flags remain unknown; findings include non-material findings.

Average days to pay creditors76 days2024-25

Qualified audit opinion for the matching source period; qualifications may affect reliability of the reported creditor measure.

Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026
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Services · Stats SA

Provision and consumer units

2023Service reference yearPreliminary
Water
Yes · Municipal provider299 932 served consumer units
Electricity
Yes · Municipal provider167 812 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation
Yes · Municipal provider253 859 served consumer units
Solid waste management
Yes · Municipal provider157 392 served consumer units

4 of 4 categories explicitly provided; 0 not provided by this municipality; 0 unknown. Consumer units include domestic and non-domestic units and do not measure resident access or reliability.

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Questions about Buffalo City

What financial period and figures are available for Buffalo City?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2024/25, the municipal financial year ending in 2025. Reported expenditure is R 12 083 120 556,00 and reported revenue is R 10 277 766 481,00. Missing figures remain unreported; revenue does not necessarily mean cash collected.

Financial resilience is 37,1 out of 100 (Financial pressure). This financial-position indicator does not measure service quality or political responsibility.

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What is the reported audit outcome for Buffalo City?

Auditor-General South Africa reports “Qualified” for 2024-25. An audit assesses financial reporting and compliance; it does not certify service delivery or rule out all wrongdoing.

Source audit opinion wording retained exactly; not a corruption finding.

AGSA source record

The separate National Treasury record for 2024/25 is “Not reported”. The two records can refer to different periods and are kept separately traceable.

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Which services does Buffalo City report providing?

Stats SA service records for 2023 describe municipal provision and consumer units, rather than household access, reliability or water safety.

  • Water: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 299 932. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 52 432. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!F54

    Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!D79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!D79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    Stats SA source record
  • Electricity: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 167 812. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 52 432. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!H54

    Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!F79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!F79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    Stats SA source record
  • Sewerage and sanitation: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 253 859. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 32 135. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!J54

    Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!H79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!H79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    Stats SA source record
  • Solid waste management: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 157 392. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 45 945. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!L54

    Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!J79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!J79

    Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.

    Stats SA source record
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Public evidence

Sources, periods and reporting coverage.

agsa · Edition 2025

257 matched / 257 source records

0 quarantined records are excluded from public indicators. Latest stored publication 06 Oct 2026; publication date and reporting period differ.

Latest source check 06 Oct 2026. An unchanged source check keeps the existing publication.

  • Public AGSA website JSON is an undocumented source contract; refresh failures preserve the last verified publication.
1 preserved source documents and checksums
Original source responseagsa:2025:1-buffalo-city-metro

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 88ae165001fddd8cbc6bcfe4dbdcb7d0473d49f15edf64033bba6c05ee64e8f5
statssa · Edition 2023

257 matched / 257 source records

0 quarantined records are excluded from public indicators. Latest stored publication 06 Oct 2026; publication date and reporting period differ.

Latest source check 06 Oct 2026. An unchanged source check keeps the existing publication.

  • 66 municipality-service-year records have positive served counts and false municipal provider flags; source values are preserved separately, without attributing an alternative provider.
  • Only 2022 revised and 2023 preliminary municipal provider data is captured. Consumer units are not household access or service quality.
1 preserved source documents and checksums
Original source responsestatssa:2023:workbook

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 072836491bed6dbf15bbc52c70f7ee131819f7b5a86855d272b998f03906547f