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iLembe

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2024/25Municipal financial year
Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicatorInsufficient evidence
Reported expenditureR 1,8BNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure
Reported revenueR 1,7B

Reported operating balance is negative (-7,807%). This describes financial position, not service quality.

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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 creditors75 days2024-25
Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026
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Services · Stats SA

Provision and consumer units

2023Service reference yearPreliminary
Water
Yes · Municipal provider151 150 served consumer units
Electricity
Not provided by this municipality0 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation
Yes · Municipal provider150 516 served consumer units
Solid waste management
Not provided by this municipality0 served consumer units

2 of 4 categories explicitly provided; 2 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 iLembe

What financial period and figures are available for iLembe?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2024/25, the municipal financial year ending in 2025. Reported expenditure is R 1 803 707 408,00 and reported revenue is R 1 673 083 213,00. Missing figures remain unreported; revenue does not necessarily mean cash collected.

Financial resilience is unavailable in the published figures. This financial-position indicator does not measure service quality or political responsibility.

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What is the reported audit outcome for iLembe?

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 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 iLembe 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: 151 150. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 2 065. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!F183

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!D172

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!D172

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

    Stats SA source record
  • Electricity: Not provided by this municipality. As at 30 June 2023

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!H183

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

    Stats SA source record
  • Sewerage and sanitation: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 150 516. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 2 065. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!J183

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!H172

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!H172

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

    Stats SA source record
  • Solid waste management: Not provided by this municipality. As at 30 June 2023

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!L183

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

    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:2025:4-ilembe-district

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 0fd2d672a156520551c06c838e553aa08ea771347359c6ed068530f7bc857709
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