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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2023/24Municipal financial year
Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicator63,5 / 100Mixed resilience
Reported expenditureR 58,3BNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure
Reported revenueR 61,8B

Reported operating balance is positive (5,704%). This describes financial position, not service quality.

Treasury evidenceExplore the money →
Accountability · AGSA

Reporting and oversight

Latest preserved audit opinionUnqualified with findings2024-25

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

Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026

2 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 creditors46 days2024-25
Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026
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Services · Stats SA

Provision and consumer units

2023Service reference yearPreliminary
Water
Yes · Municipal provider893 524 served consumer units
Electricity
Yes · Municipal provider1 147 981 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation
Yes · Municipal provider759 148 served consumer units
Solid waste management
Yes · Municipal provider891 967 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 Cape Town

What financial period and figures are available for Cape Town?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2023/24, the municipal financial year ending in 2024. Reported expenditure is R 58 313 923 784,00 and reported revenue is R 61 841 487 486,00. Missing figures remain unreported; revenue does not necessarily mean cash collected.

Financial resilience is 63,5 out of 100 (Mixed resilience). This financial-position indicator does not measure service quality or political responsibility.

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What is the reported audit outcome for Cape Town?

Auditor-General South Africa reports “Unqualified with findings” 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 2023/24 is “Unqualified - No findings”. The two records can refer to different periods and are kept separately traceable.

Treasury audit evidence See Accountability and the audit timeline

Which services does Cape Town 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: 893 524. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 506 269. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!F16

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!D35

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!D35

    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: 1 147 981. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 304 661. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!H16

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!F35

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!F35

    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: 759 148. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 506 269. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!J16

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!H35

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!H35

    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: 891 967. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 493 126. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!L16

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!J35

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!J35

    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:2025:9-city-of-cape-town-metro

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

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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

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