In 2015/16 Tshwane had an operating deficit of R1.4-billion, excluding grants from the national government. In 2016/17 it had an operating surplus of R730-million.Africa Check researched what remained in the city coffers when the ANC left office.
It explained that a deficit occurs when any government spends more money than it collects, according to a guide to South African government budgets. Money is spent mainly on salaries and services like water and electricity. Money is collected from residents paying for services, rates, licences and fines, as well as from interest and investments.The formula “total revenue minus total spending” calculates whether there is a deficit or a surplus.
The auditor-general’s 2016/17 report on the municipality says that at the end of the 2015/16 financial year, the Tshwane had a surplus of R884.3m. But the city’s audited annual financial statements give a restated surplus of R1.1bn. This figure includes corrections of accounting errors identified later.
Carlene van der Westhuizen, a research analyst at the International Budget Partnership in South Africa, a network that aims to make public finance systems more transparent, told Africa Check the restated surplus was the best figure to use.So how did the DA calculate a deficit? Its"surplus" included national government grants.
Viva DA Viva... phansi nga ma haters phansi..
palesa_morudu That may very be but what is the point if that surplus is not benefiting citizens through service delivery. The city is not in the business of making money. Its main business is to offer basic services and the DA led administration has failed dismally in that regard
No service delivery= surplus
At what cost? The city is a mess!
Then what happened to service delivery? Camera surveillance in the city? How many RDP houses built for the poor? Wifi for the learners?
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A surplus in a year but left a huge mess. At least smokgalapa was honest about house negro SollyMsimanga. Chap did nothing for blacks on CityTshwane.
Mxm reverse psychology.... there’s no service delivery in Tshwane you run to tweeter and claim turning deficit into surplus. Spend our tax money and give the community a quality service delivery in the townships. We’re watching you DA
Roads are no longer being maintained ! City Of Tshwane municipality no longer responds to dead street lights! It’s a mess being neglected as people to survive on our own so there could be a profit
That’s because he didn’t spend jerk on services in townships !!ppl are drinking dirty water and the parks are no longer clean!!all you care about is the East!
Under the DA many people got jos regardless of their party least things were better than when its this corrupt people who only think about themselves and their familes.
Now this is someone I can get behind! Go SollyMsimanga !!
Start fixing street lights when we report them months on end...
will see that coalition crumble now to devour that surplus
This is the clear indication that corruption it's the source of ANC failure. I'm voting Our_DA 8may
What does coalition government mean ?
Good campaign just that were aren't fools
Propaganda
Credit, where credit is due I guess..
How did he do it?
That’s showing the bastard ANC how to run a city, Solly. Well done to DA.
At the expense of service delivery. The City is in a mess. Hope they use the surplus to improve the situation.
I’d click and read but the heading sounds like a paid editorial. Never trust a man that’s paid to endorse a product or service.
Why did you resign from Tshwane Mr Ex Mayor? Can we have the true reason. We cannot vote for you after what you did in Cape town with the R 4b water profits stolen from the poor. Shame on your Our_DA We know who to VOTE for We are voting ForGoodZA
I can’t help myself. Whenever I see the ANC’s Let’s Grow SA Together, I change Grow to Loot
Yippee. Burgers park lost all the awards. The only park they care about there at Sanparks is Kruger National park. Church square is a disgrace. It's like they forgot that Pretoria is the Capital city. CCTV's do not work.
Fo reyaaaal... put it in writing... let's check it out.
Ofcos you make a surplus, If you don't spend on service delivery. Surplus shouldn't be used as a performance indicator at all.
It would have been great news had you used the money to benefit tax paying residents wena Solly
That's a good job. I'm not sure, but the next question is, do all residents have their basic services, coz with a housing backlog, some areas with no clean water and so on, one would be forgiven to interpret this as incompetence. Setting low stds.
Where are the services then?
Oksalayo
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For those who don't support the DA, it will just be considered lies. What's happening with the city manager? Is he corrupt or not?
Walk through the city and when you get that strong smell of urine and dodge faeces on the pavement then you know why they turned it around.
Bitter pill for most
Why a surplus when Hammanskraal still have dirty water
This apparently is true, residents of this City must think twice before handing back to the ANC
Awesome Solly show them how it's done
The cANCer will have you believe this wasn't the case, however what they will fail to tell you is that they conveniently calculate THEIR figures including grant money paid into their coffers for re-distribution! One year people! That's all it took! Think about it come May 8.
Lol this article
Tell the whole story about Treasury
Unlike in the private sector, a surplus isn’t necessarily good news. Especially when majority of people don’t have access to basic services, but that’s something that the liberal DA will never understand
But why spread lies. Haiii media
SollyMsimanga stopped offering services to black communities hence the turn around, anyone can do that
If you dont spend your budget you will have a surplus as well. Ask real Pretorians if they have seen or felt any change and the answer is no? Infrastructure projects stopped or slow down, crime went out, park project abandoned etc.
Good job but I'm still not voting DA
Save money but dololo service delivery that's crap and u want us to celebrate that mediocrecy
Good job!!
ONE YEAR!!! People say DA always points to ANCs faults with nothing to show. Now let's be fair and ask ANC to show what they've done... DA is saying that they can do far better than the RULING ANC... This is just a taste
After canceling the free WiFi at schools, and the EPWP program. It’s all about the balance sheet, no service delivery. 🤷🏾♀️
bacckstop Well done!
Well Done Da, now that debt is clear funding is now an enabler to begin rebuilding the city as opposed to funding debt without placing additional burden on its rates payers
Times is campaigning for a Mayor who is running away from Glad Africa corruption
This is a lie, the ANC will send a formal statement to ask Times to withdraw the article as it has factual inaccuracies
That's what happens when municipality is not indulging in blatant theft for self enrichment
R1bn more for service delivery/ infrastracture development in H/skraal, Mamelodi etc.👀
that's why people in Hammanskraal drink dirty water, they are more concern about saving while in government they should spend to turn the lives of people around...to hell with cheap politicking we know the truth here on the ground
Pretty convincing argument. Vote Our_DA without the embedded racism they champion on the Western Cape.
Yes they have done that..but place go to Garankuwa and Mabopane the parks are no longer maintained. Cassandrapark used to be the best park and now u cant even recognize it. Yet Our_DA you have posted a surplus....
Now use surpluses to catch up on projects that are way behind schedule especially service delivery.
Thats why CR and Mmusi must form a coalition govm and boot JZ faction into the sea
Black excellence 📌💣💣💣💣
DA is the ONLY party that can take SA forward....!! Viva DA....!! 💙💙
Credit where due. Congrats SollyMsimanga
Surplus ? 🤣🤣🤣.and you want us to celebrate ?
Yep but.. They do not deliver on service they turned the most cleanest city in to pig stal, now the city of tshwane is filthy rubbish bins running over to streets, the smells like he'll. Because of DA
But the ANC and EFF said he messed up Tshwane
Kelly_WorldWide They had a R1bn surplus in 12 months? Is it even possible? Show us the real figures so we can make sense of how it happen? What services to the residents did they fully cut or underspend on? The figure sounds too good to be true GIVE us the figures will make up our minds
Only to hand over the money to EFF's Glad Africa. That's how your headline should read
But the current mayor complained about the mess he inherited
Simple fact that ANC leadership is too old, they are too lazy, comfortable, tired, innovationless. They should conspire to retire.
Easy peasy. Anyone can do it. All you have to is not to steal. Vote DA.
Surplus but some people in Kasie(soshas,garankuwa and mabopane)still having issues with non-service delivery(water,lights)all unstable. Surely that surplus should have been used to service the infrastructure.
Bulls eyes when the white madia says somthing black ppl will bliv it. Tell us more pls
rememberLanga
In this case a surplus is as bad as a deficit. A surplus means money meant for a service was not spent so nothing to celebrate yet.
There is only one logical choice for SA. Vote DA!
Never been the DA's 1 fan for a myriad of reasons, but kudos to them here.
And yet GautengANC MYANC talks about growing 🇿🇦 but they grow their own pockets instead!
This Ass hole is bloody corrupt.
So the media or politicians just speak or broadcast statements any how they want bcoz no-one will force them to prove their utterances! One day kuzophela
I'm unhappy with their service, they are overcharging us.
He did well, we may not come from the same party, but he did well
Either way it's the same, DA cuts service delivery with their capitalist tendencies and ANC chows money through corruption. End result community still suffers.
There was a policy put in place 2 reduce the amount of money to pay rates and levies to those who couldn't afford n just pay a fraction of that amount.DA came in and cancelled all that,now people owe thousands of Rs n if you think those people will vote for y'all nihambe wrong
Only those who don’t read the full story will believe this. What nonsense is this? Why should the national grant be excluded? Having a surplus that big is a shame for the people of Tshwane, why not use the money to serve the people?
They made a bulk of that money from clamping and towing ppl's cars...
Its possible if you consider that they kept service delivery money just to look good, blk communities are unserviced, blk ppl in hamanskraal still drink dirty water with animals. Meanwhile solly is chowing 2billion with corrupt white corporates.
Well done Solly, DA, but some comments on here really seem like people are hurt. It's good news folks!
Dololo spending for people who are drinking dirty water
In the process. License departments are closed and ones active don't have clean facilities. They should spend tax payers money where it's supposed to be spent and not deny us services
Great job Our_DA 👌👏👏👏👏 SimonPGrindrod
A feel good story! Well done DA Please can we have a few more
We don’t need research, give us audit report or let’s wait until Daily Sun gives us their own research.
Good job! Some of us don't mind giving credit where it's due
Impossible: Stop lying to us.bring detailed facts/evidence.you people must be smoking new kind of a joint.
What more DA
Community is suffering while you are busy saving money for what honestly. Use money to change life for South Africans, period that’s all. Are you saving money to prove ANC was wasting money?. You rather over spend in changing lives that’s all.
Good for him
Maybe that’s the reason the resident of hammanskral are drinking dirty water
Electrical poles are falling and there's no one who is prepared to change them. I have personally reported that several times and I am told to go and report to the ward councilor. Should we wait for what happened in block X Soshanguve? Save your money and kill us.
‘Turning it around’ only means you cut spending by R1bn and 1cent, it’s not a wow, any idiot can do that
The real problem is the headline. The 'WOW, it's true'. Like a majority of South Africans don't WANT it to be true 🙄
Why don’t you tell us how they achieved this? Which expenses were cut?
Oksalayo kodwa uphephela ufikile
Are they not using money that’s meant for service delivery again? We know how they operate. They City is a mess! Potholes, malfunctioning traffic lights, water issues in the townships, etc. They don’t use the money at all & come here with false claims. Frauds!!!
Is the 'wow' necessary?
He won't be a premier of Gauteng regardless!