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Laingsburg

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Money · National Treasury

The financial position

2023/24Municipal financial year
Financial resilience · Existing Treasury-based indicatorReview source values
Reported expenditureR 120,4MNominal rand; expenditure is not a service-quality measure
Reported revenueR 104,4M

Reported operating balance is negative (-15,306%). This describes financial position, not service quality.

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Accountability · AGSA

Reporting and oversight

Latest preserved audit opinionAdverse2024-25

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 creditorsWithheld2024-25

Creditor measure withheld: audit opinion is adverse, disclaimed, outstanding, unrecognised or absent for the matching period.

Source reliability exclusion
Source recordRetrieved 06 Oct 2026
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Services · Stats SA

Provision and consumer units

2023Service reference yearPreliminary
Water
Yes · Municipal provider2 823 served consumer units
Electricity
Yes · Municipal provider1 303 served consumer units
Sewerage and sanitation
Yes · Municipal provider2 017 served consumer units
Solid waste management
Yes · Municipal provider1 360 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 Laingsburg

What financial period and figures are available for Laingsburg?

National Treasury figures on this overview cover 2023/24, the municipal financial year ending in 2024. Reported expenditure is R 120 429 865,00 and reported revenue is R 104 443 731,00. 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 Laingsburg?

Auditor-General South Africa reports “Adverse” 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 “Adverse opinion”. The two records can refer to different periods and are kept separately traceable.

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Which services does Laingsburg 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: 2 823. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 464. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!F14

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!D33

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!D33

    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: 1 303. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 352. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!H14

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!F33

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!F33

    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: 2 017. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 458. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!J14

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!H33

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!H33

    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: 1 360. Domestic units receiving free basic services: 470. These are distinct measures and denominators.

    2023 preliminary

    Table 2!L14

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 3!J33

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

    2023 preliminary

    Table 9!J33

    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-laingsburg

Retrieved 06 Oct 2026

SHA-256 a6399415720813209012c95866ac4e3f6b1a3bc2dfecadf39566ffca785b032d
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