Coverage

What the record holds

Every source on this page is either loaded through the audited pipeline and approved, or listed as a gap with the reason. Counts are read live from the published record; nothing is estimated, and a gap is never shown as a zero. The electoral record has its own coverage page.

Places, people, parties and projects

How much of each part of the record is published, and how much of it is connected to a place, a ward or a map

Coverage of the civic recordCounted live from the published record
Domain	State	On the record	Gaps and limits
Provinces, municipalities and wards	Partial	Provinces drawn: 8 of 9 Municipalities drawn (2021 boundaries): 213 of 213 District municipalities drawn: 0 of 44 Wards drawn (2021 boundaries): 4 468 Wards on the record, every delimitation 2000–2021: 20 786 Voting districts (listed by code): 23 147	The Western Cape outline is not drawn from the provinces file: its official geometry is invalid (a self-intersecting ring) and is not repaired; maps draw it from its municipalities and say so. District municipalities are listed and linked, not drawn. Wards of earlier delimitations are listed by name and code only and never drawn on the 2021 map; no official crosswalk links wards across delimitations. Voting-district areas of the 2021 delimitation are not on the record; the 2026 delimitation's areas are held separately for the 2026 election. Streets, suburbs, towns and addresses are not on the record: no approved street or locality dataset is held, so a street is never assigned a ward. Find My Ward locates a point the visitor chooses against the ward boundaries.
Voting stations	Partial	2021 stations (the stations the 2021 results were counted at): 23 145 — linked to a ward through their voting district: 23 145 of 23 145 — with published coordinates: 0 of 23 145 2026 published station-list entries (approved): 0 2026 station locations (approved): 0	No station has coordinates on the record: the 2021 results files give a station's name and voting district only, and the published 2026 lists give addresses without coordinates. Coordinates are never derived from a name or a free-text address; an authoritative coordinate file must come from the Electoral Commission. The 2026 station lists are captured but not published: their election, delimitation and source approvals are pending, and a 2026 address is never attached to a 2021 station.
Representatives and office-holders	Partial	People on the record: 17 785 Current roster listings: 4 776 — ward councillors (IEC published list): 4 044 — Members of the National Assembly: 395 — members of provincial legislatures: 224 — NCOP permanent delegates: 54 — national executive: 59 2021 wards with a current ward councillor listed: 4 044 of 4 468 Candidacies (candidate lists): 18 396 People with an approved portrait: 443 of 17 785	424 wards of 2021 have no current ward councillor on the published list; that is a gap in the list, not a statement that the seat is vacant. Mayors, speakers, whips, mayoral committees and PR councillors are not on the record. Rosters of the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Northern Cape legislatures are not captured; every roster is as at its retrieval date, not historical. Portraits are shown only where an official source publishes them with a recorded usage basis; everyone else has the designed fallback. Council minutes, attendance and votes are not on the record: no council's minutes have been captured.
Parties	Partial	Parties on the record (as the official results name them): 721 — with an official logo: 630 of 721 Manifestos on the record: 9 — parties with a manifesto: 8 Searchable manifesto pages: 299	Manifestos are a party's own words, kept apart from the official record; only the 2024 national manifestos of some parties are held. Local-election manifestos are not yet sought.
Infrastructure projects	Partial	National projects (vulekamali IRM): 81 — placed in a province, municipality or ward: 51 of 81 — placed in a 2021 ward by a published point: 49 of 81 Published project points: 52	Provincial and municipal project registers are not acquired. A project's stage is the stage the feed states; an award or a budget is never taken as proof of completion. Project photographs are not on the record.
Analysis, fact checks and the public record	Not on the record	Published analyses: 0 Published fact checks: 0 Published public-record matters: 0 Published corrections to the record: 0 Court cases on the record: 0	Nothing editorial is published without a human editor's approval in the Desk; drafts and matters awaiting review are not public and are not counted here. No third-party article is reproduced.
Verified profiles and statements	Not on the record	Verified profiles: 0 Published profile statements: 0	A verified profile confirms who runs an account, not that its statements are true; statements are kept apart from the official and editorial record.
Citizen reports and service delivery	No public layer	—	There is no service-delivery reporting workflow yet: the site's submission routes take disputes, corrections and responses about a record, stored privately for review and never published as sent. No pothole, streetlight or water report is on the record, so none is shown on the map or in search. The absence of reports is not evidence that a service works.

Public money and party promises

Period, scope and records on the record; what is missing and why

Public-money sourcesAs of the latest approved loads
Domain	State	Period	Scope	Records	Gaps and limits
ProjectsNational Treasury — Infrastructure Reporting Model (vulekamali)retrieved 11 October 2026	Available — partial	Budget years 2021/22–2027/28 (audited outcomes, adjusted appropriation, MTEF estimates)	National departments only	81 projects · 20 departments · 254 finance figures · 52 mapped points	Provincial and municipal project registers are not published in one national dataset; they must be acquired per province or municipality. 49 projects are placed in their 2021 ward because a published point lies inside it; a project without a point has no ward, and a project in several wards is listed in each with its budget shown once. No official source links a project to a tender.
ProcurementNational Treasury — eTender Publication Portal listing feedsretrieved 11 October 2026	Available — partial	Advertised 2021–2026 (in volume from 2021)	National, provincial and municipal organs of state that publish on the portal	168 166 notices · 164 625 OCDS process ids · 774 organs of state · 76 513 documents	The portal's complete listing is cut off by its server at about 267 MB, so the oldest records come from that truncated feed; 1 597 notices from the advertised and cancelled feeds carry no OCDS id. Of 782 notices whose organ of state no listing feed names, 668 were named from the portal's own OCDS releases (the release's buyer id equals the notice's department id); the other 114 are held back rather than attributed to an invented name. Two more status feeds returned server errors.
Awards and contractsNational Treasury — eTenders OCDS API (releases)retrieved 11 October 2026	Available — partial	Tenders listed as awarded, published from 2025	Releases the API served (about 45 % of those requested; the rest returned HTTP 500)	4 630 awards · 3 223 suppliers · 1 065 contracts	Awards before 2025 and the refused releases are not on the record; the refusals were retried with back-off and are still refused. A refusal is recorded as 'not retrieved', never as 'no award'. Of 996 awards with a contract, 990 disagree with it, most often as the contract value with one to three extra digits (a decimal separator apparently lost at the source). Which figure is right is not established: values are shown as published with their status, and award values are never added up. Award dates, contract variations and payments are not published on the portal.
Municipal financeNational Treasury — Municipal Money (income and expenditure, capital, conditional grants, UIFW)retrieved 11 October 2026	Available	2008/09 – 2025/26 (grants to 2018/19; UIFW from 2011/12)	257 municipalities and districts of the current delimitation, and 35 disestablished in 2016	159 309 income and expenditure · 24 616 capital · 30 010 grant · 9 170 UIFW figures	Municipalities disestablished in 2016 keep their own figures (Treasury's older v1 item scheme, labelled as such); the successor Treasury names is stated as lineage, and no figure is moved to it. National and provincial budgets are not yet on the record. Figures are municipal, never divided across wards.
Audit opinionsAuditor-General of South Africa, as published by National Treasuryretrieved 11 October 2026	Available	2010/11 – 2023/24	All municipalities of the current delimitation	3 688 opinions	The opinion only; the audit reports' findings are not structured data and are linked, not loaded. Audit outcomes of national and provincial departments are not yet on the record.
Party fundingElectoral Commission — published declarations reports (Political Party Funding Act)retrieved 11 October 2026	Available	2021/22 – 2026/27, quarterly	Every party that declared; donations above the disclosure threshold	464 party declarations · 299 donor declarations · 16 Fund contributions · 7 not matched to a party record	Donations below the threshold are not published by law. The Commission's allocations from the Represented Political Parties' Fund and the Multi-Party Democracy Fund are separate reports not yet captured.
Claims and fact checksMandate SA editorial desk (claims recorded from captured sources; checks reviewed by a second editor)	Available — partial	Ongoing	Claims the editorial team records	0 published fact checks	No official register of promises exists; manifestos are acquired per party and checked claim by claim.
Promises and manifestosEach party's own publications	Available — partial	2024 national and provincial elections	8 parties	9 manifestos · 299 searchable pages	Manifestos are tier-2 sources (a party's own publication), kept apart from the official record and never shown as fact; promises in them are recorded as claims only when an editor records one. Local-election manifestos and those before 2024 are not yet sought; some parties' servers refused the download.

How to read a gap

“Captured, not loaded” means the file is held locally with its fingerprint and awaits review. “Not on the record” means no official dataset has been obtained; it is never shown as zero. Where a source refused a request (an HTTP error), the record says the item was not retrieved, not that it does not exist. Three layers stay separate throughout: the official record as published, what an account holder says on their own workspace, and what Mandate SA’s editors have assessed with evidence.