City of Johannesburg Performance Dashboard

2003/04 is the earliest fiscal year with a directly-sourced Total Revenue and Total Expenditure figure across all three extraction files.

This is the only year across all seventeen processed documents with a complete revenue, expenditure and surplus figure for every entity in a single table. The Johannesburg Zoo and Johannesburg City Parks appear as separate lines here; in every later document they're reported jointly as the Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo. The Johannesburg Tourism Company and Roodepoort City Theatre both existed in 2010/11, lapsed from later reporting, and Tourism was formally re-established in June 2022 — see Trading and Cultural Entities.

Full ratio table with every year is in Group Finances.

Johannesburg Water and the Johannesburg Market are the only two major trading entities in surplus this year. City Power's deficit alone is larger than every other entity's result combined.

Johannesburg Water's water interruption response is the single weakest service standard result in the whole dataset, against a backdrop of otherwise strong performance across most entities.

Full twenty-five-entity table is in Workforce and Structure.

Full fourteen-entity table across nine years is in Group Finances.

Housing delivery has been volatile year to year; free basic electricity recipients have grown far more steadily over the same window.

Figures are the most recently restated version available for each year, not necessarily the figure that year's own report first published. 2018/19's net surplus is the most contested single figure in this whole table — it appears as R6,882,676 thousand in the formal statement, R6,888,934 thousand in that same document's own trend chart, R6,490,794 thousand in the following year's comparative, R6,656,520 thousand in a later trend table, and R4,792,433 thousand in a still later trend chart — five figures, a range of over R2 billion, for one year's result. R6,656,520 thousand is used above as the most recent formal restatement, not a trend-chart figure. 2023/24's net result was first reported as a R277.7 million deficit and later restated, in the following year's comparative column, to a R225.7 million surplus. Originally reported figures for restated years are listed in the full download.

2016/17's net assets figure went through two rounds of restatement before settling at 41,762,259 shown above; the originally reported figure was 43,125,686. Current liabilities rose 23 percent in the single year from 2022/23 to 2023/24, the year net assets fell for the first time in this series.

This is the only year pair with a full cash flow statement in the processed documents — later reports discuss cash coverage only as a ratio (see below), not as a full statement. Cash and cash equivalents had grown to R6.6 billion by 2020/21 and fallen to R2.1 billion by 2023/24, per the ratio and balance-sheet figures reported in those later years.

Capital spending grew more than fivefold between 2003/04 and 2008/09, then held in the R6 to R7 billion range for over a decade. 2019/20's 73 percent budget utilisation, the pandemic year, is the clear outlier.

Debt and remuneration ratios sit comfortably inside target through 2023/24. Liquidity does not — the current ratio and cash coverage have both fallen every year since at least 2021/22, now well outside target.

A steady decline from Aa3.za in 2010/11 to Ba3 by 2020/21, four notches over a decade, followed by four years of the rating being held rather than recovered.

Metropolitan Trading Company's 2020/21 opinion is shown here as Unqualified, the entity's own contemporaneous figure; two later reports instead call that year Qualified. See Data Quality for the full account.

Figures are shown as reported; where a later report restates a figure, both are shown with the restated value used in the chart above.

Both the 2023/24 and 2024/25 annual reports title this table "Johannesburg Water Financial Performance" in their own contents — confirmed as City Power's by context and scale.

Only these two years have directly comparable household coverage percentages across all four basic services in the processed documents; later reports track free basic services recipients instead of coverage percentage (see Overview).

The aggregate rate is far lower than any single stream because the aggregate baseline includes waste that never enters a diversion programme at all.

These figures measure carbon offset from landfill gas capture and diversion programmes, a different metric from the tonnage diverted shown above. The 2012/13 figure is repeated three times in body text as 88,987 but appears once, in an infographic in the same document, as 8,987 — almost certainly a missing digit, not a genuine order-of-magnitude difference.

These eight sites sum to the confirmed total of 3,022 units for 2023/24.

A separate document mentions "866,844 licensing transactions" for 2019/20 — a different, broader metric than the categories above, not directly comparable to them. Duplicate registration certificates have fallen almost every year since 2009/10, from 63,125 to 21,071 by 2015/16.

Fare revenue has fallen every year since 2022/23, from R135.7 million to R64.3 million, even as ridership held flat — consistent with the adherence collapse discouraging fare-paying use.

A visibly volatile entity — surplus and deficit years alternate roughly every other year across the full twenty-two-year span. The agency's own asphalt plant became operational in 2024/25.

Detailed gravel, tarred and stormwater tables for 2012/13 through 2015/16 exist in the source documents but the numeric values were not reliably extracted — flagged in the source itself as needing re-verification, so omitted here rather than shown with uncertain figures.

2008/09 and 2010/11 remain the strongest years in absolute terms across the full series, even though the target itself has fallen considerably since then.

No 2023/24 or 2024/25 figures exist for this entity in the processed documents.

Three consecutive Clean audit opinions, 2022/23 through 2024/25 — see Group Finances.

Council subsidy nearly doubled the theatre's operating income between 2015 and 2019, while ticket revenue stayed comparatively flat — the entity has grown more reliant on the subsidy over this period, not less.

2020/21's audit opinion is shown as Unqualified, the entity's own contemporaneous figure; two later reports instead call that year Qualified. Detailed 2023/24 and 2024/25 revenue figures were not captured in the processed documents.

This department reads as a cost centre, not a trading entity — its minor fine and permit income sits against a nearly seven billion Rand expenditure base, funded through the group budget rather than its own revenue, unlike City Power or Johannesburg Water.

Immunisation coverage nearly tripled its improvement rate between 2005/06 and 2010/11, from 85 percent to 98.6 percent, alongside a steady rise in the tuberculosis cure rate — the clearest sustained public health improvement recorded anywhere in these documents. No revenue or expenditure figures exist for this department before 2022/23; only clinical indicators were tracked in the earlier reporting era.

Like Public Safety and Health, this is a cost-centre department — the small negative revenue figure recorded reflects minor cost recoveries against a much larger expenditure base, not a trading loss.

All figures negative by convention — net cost centres funded from the group budget, the same pattern as Public Safety, Health and Community Development in later years. Corporate Services and the Contract Management Unit's sharp swings likely reflect a change in cost allocation methodology between the two annual reports; the source documents don't explain the shift.

Individual total remuneration, a different and much smaller measure than the departmental cost-centre figures above. The City Manager during this period was Mavela A.V. Dlamini, succeeding Pascal Moloi.

The 2010/11 report's own narrative says "more than 11,000" municipal-entity employees; its own entity-by-entity table sums to roughly 13,888. See Data Quality.

2019/20 onward figures explicitly include temporary workers; earlier years excluded them, so the jump visible from 2017/18 to 2019/20 partly reflects a change in what was counted, not purely growth.

Metropolitan Trading Company is the only entity in the group with every approved post filled. The Metropolitan Bus Service, Johannesburg Roads Agency and Community Development all sit above ten percent vacancy — worth reading alongside those entities' service delivery figures elsewhere in this dashboard.

2022/23's sharp sick-leave jump is explained in the source as a methodology shift, not a behavioural change — a payroll system clean-up combined with a return-to-office instruction in August 2022 captured leave that had previously gone unrecorded, rather than staff genuinely taking more than double the sick leave of the prior year.

A draft Gender Policy had not been approved by year end, flagged in the source report itself as stalling further rollout of these initiatives. No comparable training-spend figures were extracted for any later year.

A boundary redetermination partway through the 2010/11 municipal year grew the council from 217 to 260 members and from 109 to 130 wards, effective 18 May 2011 — a genuine structural change, not a reporting inconsistency.

These are genuine gaps in the historical record available for this dashboard, not gaps introduced by the extraction process — the underlying reports were either never produced, or were not available to be processed.

These four are documented internal contradictions — one report disagreeing with itself — as distinct from the cross-document conflicts listed elsewhere on this page, where two different annual reports disagree with each other.