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Local Government Capital Expenditure (LGCE) Dataset March 2024

The LGCE Dataset includes capital expenditure for the 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 financial periods and is updated quarterly. Budgetary allocations for 2023/24 was released in September 2023 including actual expenditure estimates for the first three quarters of the 2023/24 financial year (up to March 2024).

Aggregated local government capital expenditure by province for infrastructure related items such as housing, health, roads, energy and water,  is also included for periods 2017/18 - 2023/24, updated quarterly.

An easy to use interactive Dashboard is also included to extract information on a selected municipality including tables and charts. 

The main objective of the Local Government Capital Expenditure Dataset, is to track local government performance, benchmark performance against other local governments and identify growth opportunities.  The performance of a metro, DC or local government directly impacts investment opportunities and the attractiveness for investors and monitoring performance in terms of capital expenditure is therefore critical to identify longer term growth opportunities.

The following quarterly indicators are currently included for all municipalities:

1. Operating Revenue
2. Operating Expenditure
3. Capital Expenditure Functional
4. Capital Expenditure as % of total expenditure
5. Capital Expenditure on key focus areas
   1. Housing
   2. Health
   3. Energy Sources
   4. Road Transport
   5. Water Management
   6. Waste Management
   7. Waste Water Management
6. Employee Related Costs
7. Employee Related Costs % of Operating Revenue
8. Employee Related Costs % of Operating Expenditure
9. Source of Finance for Capital Revenue
   1. Internally generated funds (Rands)
   2. Internally generated funds as % of total capital revenue
10. Surplus/Deficit (Rands)
11. Surplus/Deficit % of Total Operating Revenue
12. Debtors Age Analysis (Total and exceeding 90 days)
13. Creditors Age Analysis (Total and exceeding 90 days)

Information is sourced through various documents released by National Treasury. Local governments are divided by Metro’s, District Councils and Local Government for all nine provinces including Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Kwazulu Natal, Northern Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West Province.

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