Find municipal financial records, audit outcomes and reported service provision in Western Cape. Open a municipality for its source evidence and reporting periods.
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.
30 municipal records · financial year 2023/2424 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.
Western Cape municipal financial records for 2023/24; audit opinions from Treasury
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
1
Adverse
1
Disclaimer
3
Qualified
4
Unqualified with findings
21
Unqualified with no findings
30 reported audit opinions / 30 eligible municipalities. Missing audit opinions are separate from outcomes.
Served consumer units and free basic domestic provision.
Water
Observed served consumer units
1 529 556
Observed free basic domestic units
629 269
Official source total · served
1 529 556
Official source total · free basic
629 269
Served count: 30 / 30 eligible codes. Free basic: 30 / 30. 26 explicit municipal providers.
Electricity
Observed served consumer units
1 695 497
Observed free basic domestic units
434 763
Official source total · served
1 695 497
Official source total · free basic
434 763
Served count: 30 / 30 eligible codes. Free basic: 30 / 30. 26 explicit municipal providers.
Sewerage and sanitation
Observed served consumer units
1 368 441
Observed free basic domestic units
627 773
Official source total · served
1 368 441
Official source total · free basic
627 773
Served count: 30 / 30 eligible codes. Free basic: 30 / 30. 26 explicit municipal providers.
Solid waste management
Observed served consumer units
1 420 782
Observed free basic domestic units
616 530
Official source total · served
1 420 782
Official source total · free basic
616 530
Served count: 30 / 30 eligible codes. Free basic: 30 / 30. 26 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.
Observed financial-reporting consultant costs: R 41,9M · 30 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.
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.