Gauteng / B / GT484

Merafong City

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2023/24Municipal financial year

Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicatorReview source values

Reported expenditureR 3,3BNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure

Reported revenueR 2,6B

Reported operating balance is negative (-26,617%). This describes financial position, not service quality.

Treasury evidence Explore the money →

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 creditors790 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 provider79 918 served consumer units
Electricity: Yes · Municipal provider57 856 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation: Yes · Municipal provider78 395 served consumer units
Solid waste management: Yes · Municipal provider54 507 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 Merafong City

What financial period and figures are available for Merafong City?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2023/24, the municipal financial year ending in 2024. Reported expenditure is R 3 260 953 182,00 and reported revenue is R 2 575 440 000,00. 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.

National Treasury source figures · Explore Money and its methodology

What is the reported audit outcome for Merafong 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 2023/24 is “Qualified”. 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 Merafong 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: 79 918. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 2 468. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!F245
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!D248
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!D248
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: 57 856. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 2 468. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!H245
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!F248
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!F248
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: 78 395. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 2 468. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!J245
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!H248
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!H248
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: 54 507. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 2 468. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!L245
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!J248
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!J248
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:2025:3-merafong-city

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 dcda941479aac0674d8655575b1704773b696d5c4c0ffa3253e7f92c7db4566e

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