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Stellenbosch

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2023/24Municipal financial year

Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicator66,2 / 100Mixed resilience

Reported expenditureR 2,2BNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure

Reported revenueR 2,4B

Reported operating balance is positive (4,707%). 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 creditors54 days2024-25

Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026

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Services · Stats SA

Provision and consumer units

2023Service reference yearPreliminary

Water: Yes · Municipal provider58 820 served consumer units
Electricity: Yes · Municipal provider54 023 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation: Yes · Municipal provider52 314 served consumer units
Solid waste management: Yes · Municipal provider50 792 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 Stellenbosch

What financial period and figures are available for Stellenbosch?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2023/24, the municipal financial year ending in 2024. Reported expenditure is R 2 243 189 638,00 and reported revenue is R 2 353 993 517,00. Missing figures remain unreported; revenue does not necessarily mean cash collected.

Financial resilience is 66,2 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 Stellenbosch?

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 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 Stellenbosch 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: 58 820. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 5 744. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!F10
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!D26
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!D26
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: 54 023. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 5 744. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!H10
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!F26
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!F26
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: 52 314. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 5 744. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!J10
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!H26
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!H26
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: 50 792. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 5 744. These are distinct measures and denominators.
2023 preliminary
Table 2!L10
Provider responsibility: false means this municipality does not provide the service, not that residents lack access.
2023 preliminary
Table 3!J26
Municipal consumer/billing units; not population-household access, service reliability or safety.
2023 preliminary
Table 9!J26
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-stellenbosch

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 08d7aef02492d849904f7001f12254be5f80efebc3b77ec04fc9a2b4dcb96881

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