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Ugu

Budgets, audited spending, grants, reported unauthorised and irregular expenditure and audit opinions, by financial year, as National Treasury publishes them for Ugu District Municipality Council.

Audit opinion 2023/24: Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items

Income statement, headline items

Original budget, adjusted budget and audited actual side by side; each is its own figure

Headline items by financial yearRands, as published by National Treasury
Financial year	Item	Original budget	Adjusted budget	Audited actual
2025/26	Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions)	R 1 469 793 347	R 1 857 286 651	—
	Total Expenditure	R 911 671 647	R 884 056 858	—
	Surplus/(Deficit)	R 558 121 700	R 973 229 793	—
2024/25	Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions)	—	—	R 1 452 292 742
	Total Expenditure	—	—	R 1 906 429 524
	Surplus/(Deficit)	—	—	−R 454 136 782
2023/24	Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions)	—	—	R 1 288 171 766
	Total Expenditure	—	—	R 1 845 413 745
	Surplus/(Deficit)	—	—	−R 557 241 979
2022/23	Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions)	—	—	R 1 195 461 302
	Total Expenditure	—	—	R 1 593 154 296
	Surplus/(Deficit)	—	—	−R 397 692 994

Before 2017/18 Treasury published the older (v1) returns, whose lines are defined differently (v1 “Total Operating Revenue” is not the v2 total revenue); a v1 line is labelled as such and never compared code-for-code. Treasury’s mSCOA items 2900 (total revenue excluding capital transfers), 4400 (total expenditure) and 4500 (surplus/deficit). A year with no audited actual is one whose audit National Treasury has not published; it is not zero.

Unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure

As the municipality reported it; not a finding of wrongdoing by itself

UIFW expenditure by yearRands, reported
Year	Unauthorised	Irregular	Fruitless and wasteful
2023/24	R 1,1 billion	R 107 million	R 23 million
2022/23	R 432 million	R 242 million	R 4,5 million
2021/22	R 224 million	R 325 million	R 19 million
2020/21	R 252 million	R 178 million	R 14 million
2019/20	R 295 million	R 295 million	R 11 million
2018/19	R 228 million	R 322 million	R 12 million
2017/18	R 244 million	R 131 million	R 1,2 million
2016/17	R 161 million	R 16 million	R 666 224

Audit opinions

The Auditor-General's opinion on the annual financial statements, per year

Audit opinionsAs National Treasury records them
Year	Opinion	Report
2023/24	Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items	Audit report (external site)
2022/23	Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items	Audit report (external site)
2021/22	Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items	Audit report (external site)
2020/21	Qualified	Audit report (external site)
2019/20	Qualified	Audit report (external site)
2018/19	Qualified	Audit report (external site)
2017/18	Adverse opinion	Audit report (external site)
2016/17	Qualified	Audit report (external site)
2015/16	Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items	Audit report (external site)
2014/15	Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items	Audit report (external site)
2013/14	Qualified	Audit report (external site)
2012/13	Disclaimer of opinion	Audit report (external site)
2011/12	Qualified	Audit report (external site)
2010/11	Unqualified - Emphasis of Matter items	Audit report (external site)

Capital expenditure by type

Latest audited year with figures; original and adjusted budgets beside the audited actual

Capital expenditure, 2024/25Rands
Type	Original budget	Adjusted budget	Audited actual
Deprecation	R 231 million	—	R 235 million
New	R 148 million	—	R 1,3 billion
Renewal	R 80 million	—	R 7,3 billion
Repairs and maintenance	R 94 million	—	R 65 million
Upgrading	R 43 million	—	R 380 million

Conditional grants

Largest grant budgets in the latest year published (Treasury publishes budgets, not audited receipts, here)

Conditional grants, 2018/19Adjusted budget, rands
Grant	Adjusted budget
Housing and Local Government	R 4,3 million
Municipal Disaster Recovery Grant	R 38 million
Expanded Public Works Programme Integrated Grant (Municipality)	R 3,3 million
Rural Road Assets Management Systems Grant	R 2,7 million
Municipal Infrastructure Grant	R 236 million
Local Government Financial Management Grant	R 1,9 million

capital: 2017/18 – 2025/26; 96 figures
conditional grant: 2012/13 – 2018/19; 115 figures
income expenditure: 2017/18 – 2025/26; 471 figures
uifw expenditure: 2011/12 – 2023/24; 39 figures

Tender notices by the municipality

Where the municipality publishes on the eTender portal under its demarcation name

No organ of state on the portal is linked to this municipality by an identical name. Its notices, if any, are listed under the name the portal prints.

Municipal finance: National Treasury (Municipal Money) · 5 official files · retrieved 11 October 2026

Details

Source: National Treasury — Municipal Money: conditional grants by grant (original and adjusted budget) (external site)National Treasury (Municipal Money)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 11:57 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Municipal Money Terms of Use (municipalmoney.gov.za/terms, captured 2026-10-11 as data/raw/treasury/municipal-money/terms.html): the data may be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution to National Treasury; no warranty of accuracy; figures reproduced as published.
Attribution: Municipal finance data: National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za).

Source: National Treasury — Municipal Money: income and expenditure by item (original budget, adjusted budget, audited actual) (external site)National Treasury (Municipal Money)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 11:56 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Municipal Money Terms of Use (municipalmoney.gov.za/terms, captured 2026-10-11 as data/raw/treasury/municipal-money/terms.html): the data may be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution to National Treasury; no warranty of accuracy; figures reproduced as published.
Attribution: Municipal finance data: National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za).

Source: National Treasury — Municipal Money: unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure as reported (external site)National Treasury (Municipal Money)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 11:54 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Municipal Money Terms of Use (municipalmoney.gov.za/terms, captured 2026-10-11 as data/raw/treasury/municipal-money/terms.html): the data may be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution to National Treasury; no warranty of accuracy; figures reproduced as published.
Attribution: Municipal finance data: National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za).

Source: National Treasury — Municipal Money: audit opinions of the Auditor-General per municipality and financial year (external site)National Treasury (Municipal Money)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 11:54 SAST
Fingerprint: dc4b0834773c914c08d4a3b7f008bf82334347bed491922c7262828a5d7d3d30SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Municipal Money Terms of Use (municipalmoney.gov.za/terms, captured 2026-10-11 as data/raw/treasury/municipal-money/terms.html): the data may be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution to National Treasury; no warranty of accuracy; figures reproduced as published.
Attribution: Municipal finance data: National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za).

Source: National Treasury — Municipal Money: capital expenditure by capital type (original budget, adjusted budget, audited actual) (external site)National Treasury (Municipal Money)
Retrieved: 11 October 2026, 11:56 SAST
Fingerprint: fa73921f136220fe12c84848fba97a3dfb5eab7b72536e8ab394046da7f059a5SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Municipal Money Terms of Use (municipalmoney.gov.za/terms, captured 2026-10-11 as data/raw/treasury/municipal-money/terms.html): the data may be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution to National Treasury; no warranty of accuracy; figures reproduced as published.
Attribution: Municipal finance data: National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za).

National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za), Terms of Use allow reuse with attribution; audit opinions are the Auditor-General's as Treasury records them.

Why no ward figures

National Treasury reports municipal finance for the municipality as a whole. Mandate SA shows it at that level and never divides it across wards; a ward’s page links here instead.