MUNICIPAL FINANCE
Explore municipal financial data using the
SANEF Data Dashboard
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Visit the SANEF Election Dashboard and discover municipal finance data
The Election Dashboard is available at elections.sanef.org.za/dashboard. The landing page contains a brief video introduction to the dashboard.
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Select or search for a particular
municipality you are interested in
By selecting a particular municipality, you are able to select a financial performance indicator in the menu bar.
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The dashboard allows you to select a number of municipal financial datasets. These include, among others) irregular, unauthorised, fruitless and wasteful expenditure as well as information on how a municipality generates its income.
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Explore the data by financial year dating back to 2015
To give better historical context regarding the performance of a municipality, you are able to see change over a period of time, by the financial year on a particular financial performance dataset. You are able to answer the simple question, “has this municipality improved, or regressed over time?”
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Selecting the rich data view
The rich data view provides you with another opportunity to slice the data by available variables.
It gives deeper context to the financial situation of a municipality, e.g. being able to see how much of the budget was spent on fruitless and wasteful
expenditure for a particular financial year.
The tools you need
Use the provided tools to answer questions and provide context about an area.