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Richmond

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2024/25Municipal financial year
Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicator43,6 / 100Financial pressure
Reported expenditureR 166,3MNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure
Reported revenueR 150,8M

Reported operating balance is negative (-10,257%). This describes financial position, not service quality.

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Accountability · AGSA

Reporting and oversight

Latest preserved audit opinionUnqualified with no findings2024-25

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

Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026

No explicit SCM Yes/No flags are verified for this period. The audit opinion concerns reporting and compliance, not service quality.

Average days to pay creditors22 days2024-25
Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026
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Services · Stats SA

Provision and consumer units

2023Service reference yearPreliminary
Water
Not provided by this municipality0 served consumer units
Electricity
Yes · Municipal provider15 418 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation
Not provided by this municipality0 served consumer units
Solid waste management
Yes · Municipal provider1 483 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 Richmond

What financial period and figures are available for Richmond?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2024/25, the municipal financial year ending in 2025. Reported expenditure is R 166 319 668,00 and reported revenue is R 150 847 013,00. Missing figures remain unreported; revenue does not necessarily mean cash collected.

Financial resilience is 43,6 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 Richmond?

Auditor-General South Africa reports “Unqualified with no 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.

See Accountability and the audit timeline

Which services does Richmond report providing?

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

  • Water: Not provided by this municipality. As at 30 June 2023

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!F188

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

    Stats SA source record
  • Electricity: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 15 418. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 456. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!H188

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!F163

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!F163

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

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!J188

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

    Stats SA source record
  • Solid waste management: Provides service. As at 30 June 2023 Served consumer units: 1 483. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 460. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!L188

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!J163

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!J163

    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:2025:4-richmond

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 b78675f1272680bddbbd3dbd93acc65ee43b154e81b59254c087a290675756a9
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