# South Africa Municipal Finance Data - Budgets, Audits, Grants (`superior_typhoon_xgu/sa-municipal-finance-data`) Actor

Official National Treasury Municipal Money data for all 257 South African municipalities: budgets, spending, grants, debtors, irregular expenditure and audit opinions. By Musa AI Tools.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/superior_typhoon_xgu/sa-municipal-finance-data.md
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- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Other
- **Security:** Limited permissions
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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# README

## South Africa Municipal Finance Data – Budgets, Spending, Audit Opinions & Grants API

**Get official financial data for all 257 South African municipalities in one click.** This Actor extracts National Treasury **Municipal Money** data covering metros, district and local municipalities: **income & expenditure, budgets vs actuals, balance sheets, cash flow, capital spending, grants, repairs & maintenance, debtors, creditors, irregular / fruitless & wasteful expenditure and Auditor-General audit opinions**. You get clean, flat records as **JSON, CSV, Excel or via API**, ready for spreadsheets, BI dashboards, research and AI agents.

### 🔎 What does SA Municipal Finance Data do?

- Pulls from the official **National Treasury Municipal Money API** (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za), with data from 2003/04 to the latest quarter
- Covers **20 datasets**, including Income & Expenditure, Financial Position, Cash Flow, Capital Acquisition, Grants, Aged Debtors/Creditors, UIFW expenditure, Audit Opinions and the municipality directory
- Filters by **municipality code** (CPT, JHB, TSH, ETH, EKU, NMA, BUF, MAN…), **province**, **financial year** and **amount type** (audited actual, original budget, adjusted budget…)
- Returns flat, consistent fields (`municipalityCode`, `financialYear`, `itemLabel`, `amountType`, `amount`…) plus every original field
- Built to be reliable: automatic retries with exponential backoff, 45 s timeouts and graceful handling of API outages
- Each record carries a **source attribution** line, as the data's terms of use require

### 👥 Who is it for?

- **Investors and credit analysts** assessing municipal bonds, creditworthiness and service-delivery risk
- **Suppliers and contractors** checking whether a municipality pays creditors on time before bidding
- **Journalists, civic-tech groups and NGOs** tracking irregular expenditure and audit outcomes
- **Researchers, consultants and economists** building time series across municipalities
- **Property developers and businesses** comparing metros for capital investment and infrastructure spending

### 📦 Output data

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| dataset | audit_opinions |
| municipalityCode / municipalityName | CPT / Cape Town |
| financialYear | 2024 (year ending June 2024) |
| itemLabel | Sale of Goods and Rendering of Services |
| amountType | Audited Actual |
| amount | 7808 (Rand) |
| period | 2024 (year) |
| opinion / reportUrl | Unqualified - No findings / link to the AG audit report PDF |
| …all original fields | e.g. `functionCategoryLabel`, `itemCode`, `grantLabel` |
| sourceAttribution, retrievedAt | Source: National Treasury, Municipal Money… |

Sample item:

```json
{
  "dataset": "audit_opinions",
  "municipalityCode": "CPT",
  "municipalityName": "Cape Town",
  "financialYear": 2024,
  "opinion": "Unqualified - No findings",
  "reportUrl": "https://lg.treasury.gov.za/supportingdocs/CPT/...Audit Report_2024....pdf",
  "sourceAttribution": "Source: National Treasury, Municipal Money (municipaldata.treasury.gov.za), dataset \"audit_opinions\", retrieved 2026-10-20."
}
```

### ⚙️ Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| dataset | Which dataset to extract (default: Audit Opinions) |
| municipalities | Demarcation codes, e.g. `CPT`, `JHB`, `WC011`. Leave empty for all |
| province | EC, FS, GT, KZN, LIM, MP, NC, NW, WC |
| financialYears | e.g. `2024`, `2023`. Leave empty for all years |
| amountTypes | e.g. `AUDA` (audited actual), `ORGB` (original budget), `ADJB` (adjusted budget) |
| annualOnly | Keep only full-year figures (default on) |
| maxItems | Maximum number of records (default 1000) |

### 🚀 How to use it

1. Pick a **dataset**, add municipality codes and/or a province and a year, then press **Start**.
2. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call the Apify API from Python, Node.js, Make, Zapier or n8n.
3. **Schedule** monthly or quarterly runs to keep a dashboard or Google Sheet up to date when Treasury publishes new figures.

**Examples**

- Audit opinions for every Gauteng municipality in 2024: `dataset=audit_opinions`, `province=GT`, `financialYears=["2024"]`
- Johannesburg's budget vs actual spending: `dataset=incexp_v2`, `municipalities=["JHB"]`, `amountTypes=["ORGB","AUDA"]`
- Irregular expenditure across all metros: `dataset=uifwexp`, `municipalities=["CPT","JHB","TSH","ETH","EKU","NMA","BUF","MAN"]`

### 💰 Cost

This Actor is lightweight: it calls the API directly, with no browser. Typical runs finish in seconds and cost fractions of a cent.

### ❓ FAQ

**Is this data free to reuse?** Yes. National Treasury's Municipal Money terms of use allow you to download, copy, publish and use the data **commercially and non-commercially**, provided you **acknowledge National Treasury as the source and the publication date**, don't use it to mislead, and don't imply Treasury endorses you. Every record includes a `sourceAttribution` field to make that easy. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by National Treasury.

**Is personal data included?** No. The "Municipal Officials" dataset is deliberately not supported.

**What do the amount types mean?** AUDA = audited actual, ORGB = original budget, ADJB = adjusted budget, PAUD = pre-audit, ACT = in-year actual, IBY1/IBY2 = budget-year forecasts.

**How fresh is the data?** It is live from the API: Treasury updates it quarterly as municipalities submit their returns.

**Need something else?** Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.

***

*Keywords: South Africa municipal data, Municipal Money API, National Treasury data, municipal budgets South Africa, municipal finance API, audit opinions Auditor-General, irregular expenditure, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, metro budgets, Cape Town Johannesburg Tshwane eThekwini finances, local government data South Africa, MFMA data.*

# Actor input Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Which National Treasury Municipal Money dataset to extract.

## `municipalities` (type: `array`):

Demarcation codes, e.g. CPT (Cape Town), JHB (Johannesburg), TSH (Tshwane), ETH (eThekwini), EKU (Ekurhuleni), NMA (Nelson Mandela Bay), BUF (Buffalo City), MAN (Mangaung). Leave empty for all municipalities.

## `province` (type: `string`):

Only municipalities in this province. Combined with municipality codes if both are given.

## `financialYears` (type: `array`):

Financial year-end years, e.g. 2024 (= July 2023 to June 2024). Leave empty for all years.

## `amountTypes` (type: `array`):

For financial datasets only, e.g. AUDA (audited actual), ORGB (original budget), ADJB (adjusted budget), ACT (actual), PAUD (pre-audit), IBY1/IBY2 (budget forecasts). Leave empty for all.

## `annualOnly` (type: `boolean`):

For financial datasets, keep only full-year figures (skip monthly/quarterly in-year reports).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "dataset": "audit_opinions",
  "municipalities": [
    "CPT",
    "JHB"
  ],
  "province": "",
  "financialYears": [
    "2024"
  ],
  "annualOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All extracted records (flattened, one item per fact).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "municipalities": [
        "CPT",
        "JHB"
    ],
    "financialYears": [
        "2024"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("superior_typhoon_xgu/sa-municipal-finance-data").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "municipalities": [
        "CPT",
        "JHB",
    ],
    "financialYears": ["2024"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("superior_typhoon_xgu/sa-municipal-finance-data").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "municipalities": [
    "CPT",
    "JHB"
  ],
  "financialYears": [
    "2024"
  ]
}' |
apify call superior_typhoon_xgu/sa-municipal-finance-data --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,superior_typhoon_xgu/sa-municipal-finance-data"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/I8TbTGVu3gwqMgMBs/builds/A3S7M4n4vuvi663Oc/openapi.json