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Find municipal financial records, audit outcomes and reported service provision in Gauteng. Open a municipality for its source evidence and reporting periods.

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Municipal finances in Gauteng

Financial resilience is Pothole Portal’s experimental financial indicator. It does not measure service quality, corruption or political performance. The audit column below is the Treasury record; separately sourced AGSA audit evidence is available in each municipality’s Accountability tab.

11 municipal records · financial year 2023/246 have sufficient inputs for Financial resilience

This directory uses the data service’s latest default financial year. A missing value does not mean zero, and this list does not establish complete source coverage.

Gauteng municipal financial records for 2023/24; audit opinions from Treasury
MunicipalityTypeFinancial yearFinancial resilienceTreasury audit opinion
City of EkurhuleniEKUMetropolitan2023/24Review source valuesUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
City of JohannesburgJHBMetropolitan2023/2422,8 / 100Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
City of TshwaneTSHMetropolitan2023/2459,9 / 100Qualified
EmfuleniGT421Local2023/24Review source valuesQualified
LesediGT423Local2023/2450,1 / 100Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
Merafong CityGT484Local2023/24Review source valuesQualified
MidvaalGT422Local2023/2475,6 / 100Unqualified - No findings
Mogale CityGT481Local2023/24Review source valuesUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
Rand West CityGT485Local2023/2439,3 / 100Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
SedibengDC42District2023/24Insufficient evidenceUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items
West RandDC48District2023/2459,1 / 100Unqualified - No findings

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Gauteng · Other public sources

Oversight and services. Beside the money.

Current geography · all municipality types. Each source uses its latest independent period. Local and district responsibilities overlap; observed municipal sums and official source totals are shown separately.

AGSA · 2024/25

Audit outcomes among reported municipalities

5

Qualified

4

Unqualified with findings

2

Unqualified with no findings

11 reported audit opinions / 11 eligible municipalities. Missing audit opinions are separate from outcomes.

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Stats SA P9115 · 2023 service reference year

Served consumer units and free basic domestic provision.

Water

Observed served consumer units
4 245 409
Observed free basic domestic units
364 153
Official source total · served
4 245 409
Official source total · free basic
364 153

Served count: 11 / 11 eligible codes. Free basic: 11 / 11. 9 explicit municipal providers.

Electricity

Observed served consumer units
2 866 014
Observed free basic domestic units
357 414
Official source total · served
2 866 014
Official source total · free basic
357 414

Served count: 11 / 11 eligible codes. Free basic: 11 / 11. 9 explicit municipal providers.

Sewerage and sanitation

Observed served consumer units
3 577 054
Observed free basic domestic units
364 653
Official source total · served
3 577 054
Official source total · free basic
364 653

Served count: 11 / 11 eligible codes. Free basic: 11 / 11. 9 explicit municipal providers.

Solid waste management

Observed served consumer units
4 581 044
Observed free basic domestic units
372 001
Official source total · served
4 581 044
Official source total · free basic
372 001

Served count: 11 / 11 eligible codes. Free basic: 11 / 11. 9 explicit municipal providers.

Consumer units combine domestic and non-domestic units; free basic units are domestic. These counts do not measure resident access, service reliability or quality. The source’s 2023 figures are preliminary; 2022 figures are revised.

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Observed financial-reporting consultant costs: R 78,8M · 11 reporting municipalities. Creditor days are not added across municipalities.

Source coverage and qualification notes
  • Public AGSA website JSON is an undocumented source contract; refresh failures preserve the last verified 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.
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Municipal records do not describe the provincial government’s own spending. Municipal categories have different functions, and a district can share a geographic area with local municipalities. Do not add overlapping areas as if they represented separate populations.

Service records describe municipal provision and consumer units, rather than household access, reliability or water safety. Each evidence summary shows its own period and reporting coverage. Use provincial trends and coverage, the comparison tool and our comparison guide to understand changes.

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