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uMlalazi

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2022/23Municipal financial year
Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicator52,1 / 100Mixed resilience
Reported expenditureR 497,6MNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure
Reported revenueR 432,1M

Reported operating balance is negative (-15,15%). 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

1 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
Not provided by this municipality0 served consumer units
Electricity
Yes · Municipal provider48 261 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation
Not provided by this municipality0 served consumer units
Solid waste management
Yes · Municipal provider19 946 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 uMlalazi

What financial period and figures are available for uMlalazi?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2022/23, the municipal financial year ending in 2023. Reported expenditure is R 497 581 200,00 and reported revenue is R 432 117 271,00. Missing figures remain unreported; revenue does not necessarily mean cash collected.

Financial resilience is 52,1 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 uMlalazi?

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 2022/23 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 uMlalazi 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!F167

    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: 48 261. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 7 483. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!H167

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!F157

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!F157

    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!J167

    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: 19 946. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 7 483. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!L167

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!J157

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!J157

    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-umlalazi

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 e764aa8ed29c8766afb24b568a10356aa8918b1f4cf93dfa40381a631dbcc75f
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