2012/13 to 2024/25 · Thirteen Years, Department by Department

City of Cape Town Performance Dashboard

Built from thirteen consecutive integrated annual reports, primary financial statements checked directly rather than the budget-comparison schedule alone, and every year checked for restatement by the report that followed it. The City reorganised its department structure four times in this period (2012/13, 2016/17, 2018/19, 2021/22) — tabs follow the current structure, with predecessor data folded in where the lineage is confirmed and flagged where it is not.

The City of Cape Town, at a Glance

Thirteen Years of Municipal Reporting, in One Place

Built from every integrated annual report from 2012/13 through 2024/25, with no missing years. Group Finances, Housing, Transport and Workforce are built from verified figures; the remaining directorates are in progress — see the Directorates tab.

Population, 2024/25

5.03 Million

Up from 3.7 million at the 2011 Census — a real, tracked growth path, not an estimate.

Total Revenue, 2024/25

R64.01 Billion

Up from R27.80 billion in 2012/13, a more than twofold increase over thirteen years.

Net Surplus, 2024/25

R5.44 Billion

The city has posted a surplus in every one of the thirteen years covered — no deficit year anywhere in this record.

Human Development Index, 2024/25

0.74

Above the national average of 0.67.

Net New Jobs, 2020 to 2024

297,019

80 percent of these came from the tertiary sector.

Households Below the Poverty Line, 2024

231,030

Unchanged from 2023. Based on monthly household income of R3,500.

Audit Opinion Streak

At Least Ten Consecutive Years Unqualified

As of the 2012/13 report, already a ten-year streak. Whether it continued unbroken through 2024/25 has not yet been checked year by year — see Data Quality.

Documents Behind This Dashboard

Thirteen

One integrated annual report per year, 2012/13 through 2024/25, with no gaps.

groupsPopulation, Households and Social Indicators, 2021/22 to 2024/25

Metric	2021/22	2022/23	2024/25
Population	4.68 million	4.76 million	5.03 million
Households	1,462,156	1,486,330	1,543,338
Overall crime, per 100,000 population	4,294	4,785	5,349
Drug-related crime, per 100,000 population	629	886	1,793
Adult illiteracy rate	5.3%	5.3%	Approximately 4.3%, derived from a 95.7% literacy rate
Public schools	779	792	800
Independent schools	201	211	227

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Drug-related crime has nearly tripled, from 629 to 1,793 per 100,000 population, in three years. Overall crime has also risen every year shown. Population and household growth are both real and positive; safety is moving in the opposite direction over the same period.

The 2024/25 illiteracy figure is a correction, not a new data point: an earlier pass mistakenly used "adults with no schooling" (0.6%) instead of the actual illiteracy rate. The source states a 95.7% literacy rate for 2024/25, giving an illiteracy rate of roughly 4.3% — a modest improvement from 5.3%, not the dramatic drop first reported. See Data Quality.

check_circleBasic Services Access, 2024/25

Piped water, on property or within 200 metres99.6%

Adequate sanitation — flush, chemical or ventilated pit toilet97.1%

Electricity for lighting, from mains95.7%

Refuse removal, at least once a week90.8%

All four basic service access rates sit above 90 percent in 2024/25, the strongest across-the-board basic services scorecard confirmed in this dashboard so far. This is a single-year snapshot — no prior-year comparison has been confirmed yet.

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This is a working checkpoint, not the finished dashboard. Group Finances, Housing, Transport and Workforce are built from verified source figures. Water and Sanitation, Energy, Solid Waste, and a deeper pass on Safety and Security and Economic Development are still to come — see the Directorates tab.

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Group Finances

Citywide revenue, expenditure and surplus, Economic Entity basis, all thirteen years. Every year checked against the primary Statement of Financial Performance and Statement of Financial Position, not just the Municipal Finance Management Act budget-comparison schedule, and cross-checked for restatement against the following year's report.

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Consolidation basis standardised to Economic Entity (Group) for all thirteen years. The source reports themselves inconsistently presented 2022/23-2024/25 on a Municipality-only basis (excluding subsidiaries) while every year from 2012/13-2021/22 used the consolidated Economic Entity basis. The three most recent years have been restated up to Economic Entity here for a single consistent series. See the Data Quality tab for the exact figures under both bases.

show_chartTotal Revenue, Expenditure and Surplus, Economic Entity, Actual

Year	Total Revenue, Thousands of Rand	Total Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus for the Year, Thousands of Rand	Note
2012/13	27,521,557	24,043,641	3,469,008
2013/14	28,370,494	26,679,626	1,682,381	Restated
2014/15	31,957,158	27,505,764	4,432,818	Restated
2015/16	35,220,581	30,847,499	4,353,075	Restated
2016/17	37,456,438	32,276,992	5,165,268	Restated
2017/18	39,361,962	34,316,984	5,163,526	Restated
2018/19	42,949,234	36,508,453	6,434,920
2019/20	44,822,515	40,527,947	4,328,964	Restated
2020/21	45,081,274	43,342,088	1,739,186	Restated
2021/22	48,833,000	45,899,641	2,883,416
2022/23	52,354,208	48,612,041	3,736,335	Basis standardised
2023/24	59,326,490	53,617,749	5,772,940	Basis standardised
2024/25	64,488,902	58,854,820	5,608,877	Basis standardised

Surplus for the Year is the post-taxation bottom line, consistent across all thirteen years. Six years carry a documented restatement from a later report — hover the badge for the specific cause. Full restatement chains, including root causes quoted from each report, are in the Data Quality tab.

account_balanceBalance Sheet, Economic Entity, Actual

Year	Total Assets, Thousands of Rand	Total Liabilities, Thousands of Rand	Total Net Assets, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	42,282,285	19,557,799	22,724,486
2013/14	45,141,281	20,685,446	24,455,835
2014/15	49,661,309	20,782,552	28,878,757
2015/16	54,558,558	21,171,053	33,387,505
2016/17	58,667,208	20,757,728	37,909,480
2017/18	65,108,330	21,720,481	43,387,849
2018/19	71,668,278	22,372,052	49,296,226
2019/20	76,891,110	23,247,024	53,644,086
2020/21	79,058,515	23,656,231	55,402,284
2021/22	82,241,638	23,953,499	58,288,139
2022/23	86,893,872	24,869,398	62,024,474
2023/24	92,337,896	24,540,482	67,797,414
2024/25	99,869,437	26,463,146	73,406,291

account_balanceStatement of Financial Position, Full Detail, Economic Entity

Every named line item as it appears in the primary Statement of Financial Position for the year ended 30 June 2025, with the 30 June 2024 comparative alongside it. Bold subtotal rows (Non-current assets, Current assets, Non-current liabilities, Current liabilities) are the source document's own groupings.

Assets

Assets	2024/25, Thousands of Rand	2023/24, Thousands of Rand
Non-current assets	76,367,850	70,814,257
Property, plant and equipment	70,726,296	65,279,647
Heritage assets	10,324	10,340
Investment property	572,701	574,392
Intangible assets	944,180	839,499
Investments	3,920,113	3,895,480
Investment in associate	88,480	59,148
Long-term receivables	94	233
Deferred taxation	105,662	155,518
Current assets	23,501,587	21,523,639
Inventory	512,961	480,354
Receivables	8,376,033	8,133,760
Investments	3,670,682	5,260,680
Value-added tax	82,816	202,070
Taxation	1,242	1,480
Current portion of long-term receivables	64	205
Cash and cash equivalents	10,857,789	7,445,090
Total Assets	99,869,437	92,337,896

Liabilities

Liabilities	2024/25, Thousands of Rand	2023/24, Thousands of Rand
Non-current liabilities	13,139,535	10,400,311
Borrowings	6,529,854	4,093,807
Provisions	6,609,681	6,306,504
Current liabilities	13,323,611	14,140,171
Deposits	643,315	543,754
Provisions	1,927,892	1,853,019
Payables from exchange transactions	8,849,705	8,306,684
Unspent conditional grants and receipts	1,141,121	833,187
Current portion of borrowings	761,578	2,603,527
Total Liabilities	26,463,146	24,540,482

Net Assets

Net Assets	2024/25, Thousands of Rand	2023/24, Thousands of Rand
Housing development fund	296,487	278,974
Reserves	4,953,525	4,396,362
Accumulated surplus	67,767,474	62,769,982
Non-controlling interest	388,805	352,096
Total Net Assets	73,406,291	67,797,414

receipt_longStatement of Financial Performance, Full Detail, Economic Entity

Every named line item for the year ended 30 June 2025, with the 30 June 2024 comparative. Revenue is split between Exchange Revenue (payment received for a service, such as service charges) and Non-Exchange Revenue (payment not directly tied to a service, such as property rates and government grants) exactly as the source presents it.

Revenue

Revenue	2024/25, Thousands of Rand	2023/24, Thousands of Rand
Exchange revenue	36,611,445	32,994,301
Service charges	32,509,980	29,301,834
Rental of letting stock and facilities	817,251	673,605
Finance income	1,943,840	1,917,312
Licences and permits	41,705	43,613
Agency services	288,826	278,170
Other income	742,145	626,852
Gains on disposal of property, plant and equipment	267,698	152,915
Non-exchange revenue	27,877,457	26,332,189
Service charges	41,990	42,379
Finance income	145,735	137,912
Other income	572,305	365,552
Property rates	12,786,377	11,981,351
Fuel levy	2,749,549	2,639,290
Fines, penalties and forfeits	2,010,667	1,910,360
Government grants and subsidies	9,254,023	8,774,667
Construction contracts	233,145	261,227
Public contributions	83,666	219,451
Total Revenue	64,488,902	59,326,490

Expenditure

Expenditure	2024/25, Thousands of Rand	2023/24, Thousands of Rand
Employee-related costs	18,638,423	17,200,102
Remuneration of councillors and board members	177,039	174,491
Impairment	2,975,447	2,798,535
Collection costs	263,710	286,886
Depreciation and amortisation expenses	3,822,245	3,508,219
Finance costs	846,823	828,707
Bulk purchases	16,511,493	14,078,064
Contracted services	3,794,496	3,476,351
Grants and subsidies paid	304,168	296,008
General expenses	11,513,506	10,962,144
Losses on disposal of property, plant and equipment	7,470	8,242
Total Expenditure	58,854,820	53,617,749

Below the Expenditure Line

Below the Expenditure Line	2024/25, Thousands of Rand	2023/24, Thousands of Rand
Net Surplus from Operations	5,634,082	5,708,741
Share of surplus in associate	29,332	17,774
Surplus from Operations before Taxation	5,663,414	5,726,515
Taxation	-54,537	46,425
Net Surplus for the Year	5,608,877	5,772,940

Full line-item detail is currently only available for 2024/25 and 2023/24. Earlier years show summarised totals only (Total Revenue, Total Expenditure, Surplus for the Year) further up this tab — extracting the same full detail for all thirteen years is possible on request but has not been done here.

bar_chartCapital Expenditure by Department, Latest Confirmed Year

Department	Latest Confirmed Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
Energy	2024/25	1,063,369
Water and Sanitation	2024/25	3,713,424
Urban Waste Management	2024/25	384,643
Urban Mobility	2024/25	1,583,173
Human Settlements	2024/25	939,469
Corporate Services	2024/25	420,495
Finance	2024/25	75,738
Safety and Security	2024/25	466,205
Office of the City Manager	2024/25	6,015
Cape Town International Convention Centre and Subsidiaries	2024/25	46,927
Community Services and Health	2024/25	310,514
Economic Growth	2024/25	94,371
Spatial Planning and Environment	2024/25	268,940
Future Planning and Resilience	2024/25	25,034

Full multi-year capital expenditure series for each department, including the pre-2016/17 predecessor where the lineage is confirmed, is on that department's own tab.

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Energy

Electricity generation and distribution, the same function as the old Cape Town Electricity directorate, plus a broader energy and climate change mandate added from 2018/19 onward - it was named Energy and Climate Change until 2021/22, when it shortened to Energy without a stated change of scope. Not the same department as Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning, a separate directorate that existed until 2016/17 and covered environmental and spatial planning policy rather than electricity itself - see the Legacy Directorates tab.

Segmental Financial Performance, Cape Town Electricity (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	9,726,260	9,282,103	444,157
2013/14	10,240,119	9,399,042	841,077
2014/15	10,981,065	10,157,449	823,616
2015/16	12,174,537	11,432,380	742,157

Only available for the pre-2016/17 structure — this classification was not re-extracted for the current department structure. Positive surplus/(deficit) = income exceeded expenditure that year, using the plain-English convention (sign-normalised where the source used a debit-positive ledger convention — see Data Quality).

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	1,286,881
2013/14	1,363,695
2014/15	952,515
2015/16	1,090,855
2016/17	1,248,888
2017/18	1,024,550
2018/19	749,456
2019/20	622,239
2020/21	750,278
2021/22	754,877
2022/23	1,006,874
2023/24	1,109,601
2024/25	1,063,369

Department lineage: Cape Town Electricity (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Water and Sanitation

Water supply, sanitation networks and wastewater treatment.

Named Facts and Achievements

2012/13: R115.6 million Bellville Wastewater Treatment upgrade; R70.75 million water network upgrade - named capital projects

Segmental Financial Performance, Water and Sanitation (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand	Note
2012/13	5,356,843	5,349,075	7,768	sum of separate Water and Sanitation source lines
2013/14	5,585,776	5,457,368	128,408	sum of separate 'Water' and 'Sanitation' source lines (3350919+2234857 income; 3208213+2249155 expenditure)
2014/15	6,308,177	6,073,911	234,266	sum of separate 'Water' and 'Sanitation' source lines (3872587+2435590 income; 3624611+2449300 expenditure)
2015/16	7,577,147	7,024,543	552,604	sum of separate 'Water' and 'Sanitation' source lines, sign-normalized

wcInformal Settlement Sanitation, 2013/14

5,916

New Sanitation Service Points (Toilets)

2,028

New Taps

Several named informal settlements received full-flush toilets in 2013/14 - Dunoon, Never-Never in Philippi, Imizamo Yethu, Samora Machel, Solly's Town, Masiphumelele, and Taliban in Khayelitsha - bringing the full-flush total for that year to approximately 1,300, a more specific figure than the broader 14,591-to-45,300+ toilet count already tracked elsewhere.

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	689,347
2013/14	933,026
2014/15	984,909
2015/16	1,399,778
2016/17	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2017/18	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2018/19	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2019/20	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2020/21	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2021/22	1,714,114
2022/23	2,051,600
2023/24	3,315,859
2024/25	3,713,424

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2016/17-2020/21: reported as one combined line covering both Water and Sanitation and Urban Waste Management ("Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services", later "Water and Waste Services"). Cannot be reliably split back into the two figures shown for the years either side. Combined total for those five years:

Year	Combined Actual, Thousands of Rand
2016/17	1,828,615
2017/18	2,112,081
2018/19	1,773,158
2019/20	2,178,611
2020/21	2,668,523

Department lineage: Water and Sanitation (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Urban Waste Management

Refuse collection, landfill management and waste diversion.

Segmental Financial Performance, Solid Waste Management (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	2,155,923	2,143,298	12,625
2013/14	2,371,628	2,127,022	244,606
2014/15	2,559,602	2,234,273	325,329
2015/16	2,749,638	2,444,857	304,781

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	214,174
2013/14	139,505
2014/15	228,009
2015/16	252,601
2016/17	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2017/18	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2018/19	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2019/20	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2020/21	Combined with its counterpart this year — see note below
2021/22	327,566
2022/23	638,820
2023/24	592,417
2024/25	384,643

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Year	Combined Actual, Thousands of Rand
2016/17	1,828,615
2017/18	2,112,081
2018/19	1,773,158
2019/20	2,178,611
2020/21	2,668,523

Department lineage: Solid Waste Management (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Urban Mobility

MyCiTi, road infrastructure and integrated public transport planning.

Named Facts and Achievements

2012/13: R590 million spent on Integrated Rapid Transit Phase 1 - largest named capital project that year

2014/15: MyCiTi carried more than 15 million passenger journeys; cumulative ridership since the May 2010 launch reached approximately 29.8 million by end of June 2015

2015/16: MyCiTi carried 18.5 million passenger journeys for the year

Segmental Financial Performance, Transport for Cape Town (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	2,557,646	2,011,744	545,902
2013/14	1,415,099	2,590,514	-1,175,415
2014/15	1,696,535	2,840,290	-1,143,755
2015/16	1,762,930	3,019,700	-1,256,770

directions_busMyCiTi Passenger Journeys

Year	Passenger Journeys	Note
2014/15	More than 15,000,000	Cumulative since May 2010 launch: approximately 29,800,000 by end of June 2015
2015/16	18,500,000
2016/17	19,900,000	Target: 19,000,000
2017/18	19,100,000	Target: 19,000,000. A national bus driver strike (18 April-14 May 2018) suppressed the figure - without it, the report states the actual would have been 19,391,044
2018/19-2021/22	Not found	Genuine gap - COVID-19 era reports did not headline this figure the way earlier and later years do
2022/23	18,323,763
2023/24	19,335,446	Target: 18,500,000
2024/25	20,022,183	Target: 18,900,000

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	2,623,876
2013/14	1,617,285
2014/15	1,218,720
2015/16	1,424,448
2016/17	1,806,655
2017/18	1,238,271
2018/19	987,340
2019/20	873,070
2020/21	776,446
2021/22	651,164
2022/23	1,089,031
2023/24	1,552,346
2024/25	1,583,173

Department lineage: Transport for Cape Town / Transport and Urban Development Authority. The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Human Settlements

Housing delivery, informal settlement upgrading and rental stock.

Named Facts and Achievements

2012/13: Seven named housing projects from Happy Valley to Scottsdene

Segmental Financial Performance, Human Settlements (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	1,184,744	1,080,919	103,825
2013/14	1,222,173	1,288,686	-66,513
2014/15	1,715,442	1,494,491	220,951
2015/16	1,305,040	1,641,243	-336,203

apartmentHousing Opportunities Delivered, by Category

Year	Sites	Top Structures	Other	Total
2012/13	6,391	4,300	1,725	—	Confirmed
2013/14	5,142	5,614	3,605	—	Confirmed
2014/15	3,822	3,372	1,525	8,719	Corrected — was estimated as 12,316
2015/16	2,297	3,319	1,364	6,980

2014/15 figure was corrected during this extraction — the dashboard previously carried an "estimated total" of 12,316 that the primary source's own confirmed table contradicts. See Data Quality.

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	647,213
2013/14	772,040
2014/15	962,099
2015/16	336,606
2016/17	Folded into Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services — not separable
2017/18	Folded into Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services — not separable
2018/19	686,008
2019/20	858,297
2020/21	737,971
2021/22	892,564
2022/23	881,608
2023/24	959,185
2024/25	939,469

Department lineage: Human Settlements (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Corporate Services

Call centre, internal support functions and administrative services.

Named Facts and Achievements

2012/13: 1,059,378 calls answered by the corporate call centre in English, Afrikaans or isiXhosa; 74 FreeCall lines installed; 96.98% adherence to citywide service delivery standards

2015/16: Compliance and Auxiliary Services Directorate formally merged with Corporate Services to become Corporate Services and Compliance

Segmental Financial Performance, Corporate Services and Compliance (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand	Note
2012/13	26,527	121,536	-95,009	Corporate Services alone - Deputy City Manager (this year's equivalent of Compliance and Auxiliary Services) not summed in, since 2012/13's capex table already tracks Deputy City Manager as a separate, unmerged line.
2013/14	91,345	411,864	-320,519	sum of separate 'Compliance and Auxiliary Services' and 'Corporate Services' source lines
2014/15	74,879	288,522	-213,643	sum of separate 'Compliance and Auxiliary Services' and 'Corporate Services' source lines
2015/16	67,211	252,985	-185,774

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	237,997
2013/14	294,109
2014/15	379,050
2015/16	448,054
2016/17	244,883
2017/18	354,037
2018/19	252,050
2019/20	157,647
2020/21	208,287
2021/22	412,998
2022/23	425,297
2023/24	642,156
2024/25	420,495

Department lineage: Corporate Services and Compliance (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Finance

Revenue management, credit control and financial governance.

Segmental Financial Performance, Finance (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	2,248,839	1,150,049	1,098,790
2013/14	1,959,700	1,342,031	617,669
2014/15	2,362,250	1,277,734	1,084,516
2015/16	2,811,112	1,286,425	1,524,687

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	52,205
2013/14	44,204
2014/15	90,673
2015/16	39,080
2016/17	24,178
2017/18	13,114
2018/19	26,224
2019/20	63,051
2020/21	248,490
2021/22	16,290
2022/23	28,965
2023/24	64,131
2024/25	75,738

Department lineage: Finance (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Safety and Security

Metro Police, Fire and Rescue, Traffic Services and Law Enforcement.

Named Facts and Achievements

2012/13: Melkbosstrand fire station completed and became fully operational; 99.99% of Fire and Rescue Service's capital budget spent; 120 seasonal fire-fighters employed for veld/bush fires with zero major incidents that year

2012/13: Three policing departments in operation: Metro Police, Traffic Services, Law Enforcement and Specialised Services; 112,492 citations issued for bylaw offences; 100% of illegal land invasion cases successfully managed

2012/13: A dedicated 33-officer Public Transport Interchange Unit launched end of 2012, covering Joe Gqabi, Bellville and Cape Town Station

2012/13: R208.29 million spent on emergency vehicles - largest named safety capital project

Segmental Financial Performance, Safety and Security (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	193,313	1,915,750	-1,722,437
2013/14	839,661	2,439,023	-1,599,362
2014/15	1,127,085	2,806,674	-1,679,589
2015/16	1,243,394	3,175,565	-1,932,171

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	58,703
2013/14	64,280
2014/15	82,095
2015/16	149,895
2016/17	114,816
2017/18	156,296
2018/19	206,866
2019/20	429,428
2020/21	367,879
2021/22	192,797
2022/23	281,671
2023/24	444,375
2024/25	466,205

Department lineage: Safety and Security (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Office of the City Manager

Executive administration and citywide coordination.

Segmental Financial Performance, City Manager (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	2	2,414	-2,412
2013/14	128	12,725	-12,597
2014/15	1,542	59,777	-58,235
2015/16	899	58,391	-57,492

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	224
2013/14	14,095
2014/15	13,920
2015/16	18,925
2016/17	321
2017/18	172
2018/19	2,500
2019/20	1,329
2020/21	1,281
2021/22	5,710
2022/23	6,669
2023/24	6,322
2024/25	6,015

Department lineage: City Manager (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Cape Town International Convention Centre and Subsidiaries

Cape Town International Convention Centre and other municipal entities.

Predecessor mapping: medium confidence

Segmental Financial Performance, Subsidiaries (2012/13-2015/16)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	276,646	245,331	31,315
2013/14	312,580	278,419	34,161
2014/15	371,609	299,829	71,780
2015/16	406,696	325,554	81,142

domainCape Town International Convention Centre and City Improvement Districts, Segmental Detail

Entity	Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
Cape Town International Convention Centre	2013/14	187,547	161,739	25,808
Cape Town International Convention Centre	2014/15	228,481	167,762	60,719
Cape Town International Convention Centre	2015/16	244,354	179,379	64,975
City improvement districts	2013/14	125,033	116,680	8,353
City improvement districts	2014/15	143,128	132,067	11,061
City improvement districts	2015/16	162,342	146,175	16,167

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2012/13-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	48,881
2013/14	48,766
2014/15	87,199
2015/16	385,157
2016/17	369,681
2017/18	121,901
2018/19	73,446
2019/20	64,021
2020/21	20,775
2021/22	10,374
2022/23	26,580
2023/24	43,829
2024/25	46,927

Department lineage: Subsidiaries (2012/13-2015/16). The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Community Services and Health

Libraries, sports facilities, parks, clinics and primary health care.

Predecessor mapping: unconfirmed — see Legacy Directorates

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2016/17-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2016/17	243,918
2017/18	257,214
2018/19	294,231
2019/20	283,453
2020/21	294,831
2021/22	272,395
2022/23	223,024
2023/24	368,443
2024/25	310,514

Department lineage: Possibly City Health + Community Services (2012/13-2015/16) - UNCONFIRMED. The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Economic Growth

Investment facilitation, tourism, events and enterprise development.

Predecessor mapping: unconfirmed — see Legacy Directorates

engineeringExpanded Public Works Programme, Jobs Created Citywide

Year	Jobs Created
2012/13	35,556
2013/14	38,305
2014/15	40,060
2015/16	44,942
2016/17	45,370

Citywide total, not specific to this department - shown here because Economic Growth (and its likely predecessor, Tourism, Events and Economic Development) is where Expanded Public Works Programme coordination has been reported. Two different cumulative-total claims exist in later reports (204,348 "workers benefitted" by 2016/17 vs a total of 284,896 "employment opportunities" by 2017/18) that don't reconcile by simple addition - not forced to match. Business perception survey score (a different metric from household satisfaction, tracked on the Workforce tab): 2007/8: 2.9, rising to 3.4-3.5 by 2013/14-2014/15.

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2018/19-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2018/19	272,714
2019/20	391,416
2020/21	320,315
2021/22	46,999
2022/23	46,144
2023/24	77,008
2024/25	94,371

Department lineage: Possibly Tourism, Events and Economic Development (2012/13-2015/16) - UNCONFIRMED. The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Spatial Planning and Environment

Land-use planning, building plan approvals and environmental management.

Predecessor mapping: unconfirmed — see Legacy Directorates

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2021/22-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2021/22	99,615
2022/23	224,417
2023/24	252,541
2024/25	268,940

Department lineage: Possibly Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning (2012/13-2015/16) - UNCONFIRMED. The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Future Planning and Resilience

Long-term strategic planning and climate resilience.

New directorate, no pre-2021/22 predecessor

bar_chartCapital Expenditure, Actual, 2021/22-2024/25

Year	Actual, Thousands of Rand
2021/22	39,103
2022/23	24,787
2023/24	19,973
2024/25	25,034

Department lineage: No predecessor - new directorate, first appears 2021/22. The City has restructured its department names four times in this period: the original structure (2012/13-2015/16), the 2016/17 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, the 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review, and a further 2021/22 restructuring. Full mapping in the Data Quality tab.

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Workforce

Citywide human resources metrics — not a spending department, so kept separate from the directorate tabs.

event_availableStaff Vacancy Rate

Year	Vacancy Rate
2013/14	9.0%
2014/15	9.67%
2015/16	8.61%
2016/17	9.69%
2017/18	8.89%
2018/19	11.71%

2024/25 has two different figures in the source report itself — 6.08% in the scorecard table, 6.27% in the narrative text. Shown here as the scorecard figure; the discrepancy is logged in Data Quality.

badgeEmployee Headcount

Point in Time	Employees
2013	25,722
2014/15	25,516
2015/16	26,349
2016/17	27,343
2018/19 start	27,343
2019/20 start	28,462
2019/20 end	28,828
2020/21 end	29,384
2021/22 end	29,402
2022/23 end	30,047
2023/24 start	28,462
2023/24 end	28,787
2024/25 start	28,462
2024/25 end	28,768

Reported inconsistently as start-of-year, end-of-year, or a single annual figure depending on the report — kept exactly as labelled in each source rather than normalised.

sentiment_satisfiedCommunity Satisfaction Survey, Household/Resident Score (Out of 5)

Year	Score
2007/8	2.4
2009/10	2.6
2010/11	2.7
2011/12	2.7
2012/13	2.9
2013/14	2.9
2015/16	2.8
2020/21	2.5
2021/22	2.7

Peaked at 2.9 in 2012/13, confirmed independently by the 2013/14 report stating its own 2013/14 score "is the same as the score achieved in the 2012/13 period." Still hadn't recovered to that peak by 2021/22. The 2014/15 figure specifically was never found — a genuine gap, not interpolated.

handshakeBusiness Perception Survey Score (Out of 5)

Year	Score
2007/8	2.9
2009/10	3.1
2010/11	3.2
2011/12	3.3
2012/13	3.4
2013/14	3.5
2014/15	3.5

A different survey from the household/resident satisfaction score above — measures business perception of the City's overall performance, not resident perception. Kept as its own series to avoid conflating the two.

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Legacy Directorates, 2012/13-2015/16

Five departments from the original pre-2016/17 structure with no confirmed one-to-one successor in the current department list. Their data is preserved here rather than discarded or force-mapped to a current department.

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Every other pre-2016/17 department (Transport, Water and Sanitation, Cape Town Electricity, Solid Waste Management, Human Settlements, Corporate Services, Finance, Safety and Security, City Manager, Subsidiaries) has a confirmed lineage into a current department and appears on that department's own tab instead.

health_and_safetyCity Health

2012/13: R1.68 million Eerste River clinic; R2.78 million Luvuyo Clinic antiretroviral extension - named capital projects; tuberculosis cure rate 83%

2014/15: Tuberculosis cure rate 81% (Q2 2014), a slight dip from the 83% baseline in 2012/13

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	391,134	898,940	-507,806
2013/14	432,299	936,192	-503,893
2014/15	496,436	1,033,716	-537,280
2015/16	528,355	1,123,209	-594,854

Year	Capital Expenditure, Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	31,899
2013/14	30,096
2014/15	20,173
2015/16	17,122

human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis treatment, and primary health care, until this function was folded into a broader directorate during the 2016/17 reorganisation and eliminated as a standalone post.

parkCommunity Services

2012/13: 28 recreation hubs, 869 community park initiatives, 314 library reading programmes; 3,209 community parks, 38 cemeteries, 436 sports fields, 92 libraries maintained to standard

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	183,401	1,896,341	-1,712,940
2013/14	162,449	1,904,820	-1,742,371
2014/15	185,385	2,032,541	-1,847,156
2015/16	170,917	2,214,238	-2,043,321

Year	Capital Expenditure, Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	192,140
2013/14	209,126
2014/15	199,711
2015/16	193,009

Libraries, sports fields, cemeteries and community parks, until this post was made redundant in the 2016/17 reorganisation.

confirmation_numberTourism, Events and Economic Development

2014/15: 40,060 Expanded Public Works Programme job opportunities created citywide

2015/16: 44,942 Expanded Public Works Programme job opportunities created; cumulative since 2010/11 almost 160,000; business satisfaction survey score 3.5 out of 5, up from 2.9 in 2007/8 (a different metric from the household/community satisfaction score tracked under Workforce)

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	26,817	518,941	-492,124
2013/14	64,931	626,671	-561,740
2014/15	28,809	687,840	-659,031
2015/16	27,192	720,105	-692,913

Year	Capital Expenditure, Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	102,455
2013/14	26,530
2014/15	36,678
2015/16	40,824

Named "Tourism, Events and Marketing" in 2012/13-2013/14, renamed 2014/15. Its post-2016/17 fate was never confirmed in this extraction.

child_careSocial Development and Early Childhood Development

2012/13: 2,080 Expanded Public Works Programme jobs specifically from Social Development (part of the 35,556 citywide total); 55 social development programmes; 3 named early childhood development centres worked on

2012/13: 93.6% of Urban Settlements Development Grant spent

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	1,027	122,357	-121,330
2013/14	128	158,366	-158,238
2014/15	14,334	206,760	-192,426
2015/16	680	256,311	-255,631

Year	Capital Expenditure, Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	9,590
2013/14	7,838
2014/15	23,251
2015/16	15,660

Poverty alleviation and early childhood development programmes, absorbed into the new "Social Services" directorate from 2016/17.

ecoEconomic, Environmental and Spatial Planning

2012/13: Air pollution exceedance days held to 4 against a target of under 25

Year	Income, Thousands of Rand	Expenditure, Thousands of Rand	Surplus/(Deficit), Thousands of Rand
2012/13	104,348	639,277	-534,929
2013/14	108,334	647,163	-538,829
2014/15	144,110	666,759	-522,649
2015/16	134,410	721,031	-586,621

Year	Capital Expenditure, Actual, Thousands of Rand
2012/13	43,667
2013/14	64,469
2014/15	56,216
2015/16	62,977

Labelled "Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning" in 2012/13-2013/14, "Energy, Environmental and Spatial Planning" from 2014/15 — confirmed as the same line, not a data error. Eliminated in the 2016/17 reorganisation; its Energy function likely became the standalone Energy directorate, its Environmental and Spatial Planning function's destination was never confirmed.

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Directorates — In Progress

Real, stated gaps rather than silent omissions.

segmentSegmental Financial Performance

Income/expenditure/surplus by department (Appendix D style) is confirmed for the pre-2016/17 structure, 2012/13-2015/16, and used inside each relevant department tab as historical context. It has NOT yet been extracted for the current (2016/17-2024/25) department structure beyond a partial pull for 2016/17's functional classification — this uses a different classification scheme (national standard functions, not City directorate names) and would need its own mapping pass.

link_offUnconfirmed Department Lineages

Four current departments have no confirmed pre-2016/17 predecessor: Community Services and Health, Economic Growth, Spatial Planning and Environment, and Future Planning and Resilience. Plausible (not confirmed) predecessors are noted on each tab. The 2018/19 Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review's full mapping was also never completed beyond the one explicitly-named new directorate (Economic Opportunities and Asset Management).

descriptionNarrative Depth

2012/13 has by far the deepest narrative coverage (named projects, dated facts, specific figures). 2014/15 onward is progressively thinner. 2013/14's narrative was never systematically mined beyond what surfaced incidentally. Expanded Public Works Programme citywide totals and MyCiTi ridership stop appearing clearly in the source reports from 2019/20 onward — likely a real shift in report emphasis post-COVID, not a search failure.

history_eduRestatement Chains Not Yet Checked

2012/13 and 2013/14 are confirmed against their own primary statements and against each other's comparative columns, but were never checked against a report earlier than 2013/14 (none exists in this dashboard's source set) or later than 2015/16's comparative reach. If a future restatement of these years exists in a report not yet reviewed, it hasn't been found.

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Data Quality

Every correction, restatement, and unresolved question found while building this dashboard, including a mistake this dashboard itself made and then reversed.

swap_horizConsolidation Basis: Economic Entity vs Municipality

The source reports themselves inconsistently present two bases: Economic Entity (the Group, consolidated with subsidiaries) and Municipality (the parent entity alone). 2012/13-2021/22 all report Economic Entity as the headline figure; 2022/23-2024/25's headline figures are Municipality-only. This dashboard standardises all thirteen years to Economic Entity.

Year	Economic Entity Revenue	Municipality Revenue	Basis Used Here
2021/22	48,833,000	48,765,723	Economic Entity (matches source headline)
2022/23	52,354,208	52,091,103	Economic Entity (restated up from Municipality)
2023/24	59,326,490	58,956,878	Economic Entity (restated up from Municipality)
2024/25	64,488,902	64,007,435	Economic Entity (restated up from Municipality)

historyRestatement Chains, by Year

Year	Restated By	Root Cause	Materiality
2012/13	2013/14 report	World Design Capital 2014 found not to meet the Generally Recognised Accounting Practice Standard 6 definition of a subsidiary, deconsolidated	Immaterial (under 0.1%)
2013/14	2014/15 report	Value-Added Tax not correctly allocated on inter-directorate stock issues	Immaterial (R2.8m on R28.4bn)
2014/15	2015/16 report	Correction of error, not otherwise itemised	Small (+R39.8m to surplus)
2015/16	2016/17 report, then again by 2017/18 report	Indigent customers erroneously billed for water and wastewater service charges — Generally Recognised Accounting Practice fair-value measurement corrected retrospectively	Meaningful (~R608m revenue)
2016/17	2017/18 report	Same indigent water-billing error as 2015/16	Meaningful (~R948m revenue, 2.5%)
2017/18	2018/19 report	Housing Opportunity rental billing violated Allocation Policy; a Generally Recognised Accounting Practice traffic management report left withdrawn fines in receivables	Significant (surplus -5.9%)
2018/19	NOT restated by 2019/20 report; later restated by 2020/21 report	Generally Recognised Accounting Practice Standard 35 adoption — City Improvement District entities deconsolidated	Immaterial in P&L, structural in balance sheet
2019/20	2020/21 report	Same Generally Recognised Accounting Practice Standard 35 City Improvement District deconsolidation	Immaterial (under 0.5%)
2020/21	2021/22 report — flagged by the Auditor-General as an Emphasis of Matter	Connection fees miscategorised; COVID equitable-share rollover wrongly recognised as revenue; Generally Recognised Accounting Practice Standard 11, Construction Contracts, not applied to National Housing Programme arrangements	Significant (surplus -7.4%)
2021/22	NOT restated by 2022/23 report	—	Clean year
2022/23	NOT restated by 2023/24 report	—	Clean year
2023/24	NOT restated by 2024/25 report	—	Clean year

Every "not restated" line is a positive confirmation, checked directly, not an absence of checking.

undoA Correction This Dashboard Made, Then Reversed

While processing 2015/16 against its own Statement of Comparison schedule, this dashboard's own 2015/16 Expenditure and Surplus figures were "corrected" from 30,847,499 / 4,353,075 to 30,849,784 / 4,370,797. That correction was wrong: the original figures were already the correctly, later-restated values, and the "fix" reverted them to an earlier, superseded vintage. Reversed once the 2016/17 report's comparative column was checked directly. Kept here as a documented example of the dashboard's own error, not just the source data's.

apartmentHousing, 2014/15 — Estimate Superseded

The dashboard previously carried an "estimated total" of 12,316 housing opportunities for 2014/15 (5,556 sites, 4,760 top structures, 2,000 other). The primary source's own confirmed table gives 8,719 (3,822 sites, 3,372 top structures, 1,525 other) — a materially different figure, not a rounding difference. Corrected.

account_treeFour Department Structures in Thirteen Years

2012/13-2015/16: the original structure, roughly sixteen departments. 2016/17: the Organisational Development and Transformation Plan, adopted late 2016, effective 1 January 2017 — City Health and Community Services eliminated, Utility Services became Informal Settlements Water and Waste Services, three brand-new directorates created (Assets and Facilities Management, Directorate of the Mayor, Area-Based Management). 2018/19: an Organisational Development and Transformation Plan review created Economic Opportunities and Asset Management. 2021/22: a further, unexplained restructuring split Water and Waste Services back into two lines and renamed several directorates. Full mapping, including what's confirmed versus inferred, is documented department by department across the tabs.

layers_clearJohannesburg Data Removed

An earlier checkpoint of this dashboard carried roughly 900 lines of leftover Johannesburg dashboard code (entity names, financial figures, chart configurations) from when this build started as a copy of that template. It was inert — not displayed or downloadable — but included two live bugs: a duplicate population chart silently overriding the real one, and a duplicate CSV key silently serving Johannesburg data under a Cape Town-labelled download button. Both fixed; all Johannesburg content removed.