Public finance and governance data resources
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The National Treasury contains information on advertised, awarded, closed and cancelled tenders. You can also view the . This means that it does not show smaller procurement such as RFQs by municipalities. Provinces also run their own portals such as awarded tenders.
In specific sectors there are dedicated sites, for example for health, you can see the on the Department of Health tenders page.
packages a large amount of data from National Treasury. This includes data related to:
Provincial and national budgets
from Treasury
(e.g. single sourcing) and from procurement processes from the
with the scheduled bids from
and infrastructure projects
Also see National Treasury and Stats SA .
Public Investment Corporation (PIC) is a state-owned company which invests funds on behalf of clients such as the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) and Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). include summary information on investments, performance and governance.
Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) has more than 1.2 million active members and assets worth more than R1.61 trillion. Information on investments and performance is available in the .
Development Bank of South Africa provide some information on projects and investments.
Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and - which includes lists of IDC-funded business partners and indication of prominent influential persons (PIPs).
There are three report sections and associated datasets on the AGSA reporting page.
PFMA section contains audit reports on the financial and performance management of national and provincial departments and public entities.
MFMA section, contains similar for municipal entities, including district and metropolitan municipalities.
Special Audit Reports section contains information on ad-hoc investigations.
COVID-19 Solidarity Fund includes detailed information on project allocations and spending in PDFs.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) South Africa has links to including transactions with the fund, credit outstanding and projected payments. General IMF data is .
World Bank full for South Africa.
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) include investment information.
SA SME Fund annual reports are available from the investor relations menu on .
Stats SA publishes and the is available on the National Treasury website.
provides deep insights into the finances of municipalities on how they source revenue and what they spend it on. This includes data on local .
Municipalities publish their smaller 'RFQ' procurement requests on their own portals. for a list of many municipal website RFQ and tender pages. Some examples:
City of Johannesburg: RFQs are published as PDFs on their .
eThekwini Municipality: See
City of Cape Town: For the procurement of goods and services up to R200,000, RFQs can be accessed on , but you will need to register to view details. More assistance is available .
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality: , and '' and .
Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality: Seems to publish a in a weekly PDF.
City of Tshwane: Lists and requests, and had archived quotations (previously).
Nelson Mandela Bay: Posts information on and
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) manages the [link not active] which contains information on targets and agreements by ministers, and tracks performance. DPME also hosts information on the (MTSF) and an .
The conducted on on all government departments, public entities, municipalities and public institutions.
Municipalities also publish reports assessing their performance according to their own plans, such as through the .
provides digital version of By-laws from a few municipalities around South Africa.
Legal material from South African court cases via the (SAFLII) and from .
University of Pretoria publishes for South Africa (as PDFs)
Government Gazettes can be accessed as PDFs as they are published on the and are searchable on as soon as they have been uploaded.
Municipality council meetings: See a working list on the availability of municipal records . if you have a correction or more to add. This includes council (and sub-council) meeting agendas, minutes and resolutions e.g. and .
Parliamentary proceedings: Detailed meeting minutes, summaries and presentations from national (and some provincial) parliamentary activity at (PMG) and (PA).
Provincial legislatures and parliaments publish some information on agendas, motions, tablings and some now have live streams. PMG has pages for provincial legislatures, and some include meeting minutes e.g. . Also see legislature websites such as and .
Administrative boundaries are critical for elections and other service delivery activities. See data sources for Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) provincial, municipality and ward boundaries as well as Stats SA 'main place' and 'subplace' information - similar to suburb - on .
includes election information that draws on IEC data. In addition to providing various data downloads on candidates and results via its standard , the IEC also provides an for accessing election-related data.
Black Sash and its partners run a programme collecting data on service delivery by local government and SASSA
is a project by the International Budget Partnership to get feedback from residents of informal settlements on service delivery during COVID
For media-related tools have a look at this from Media Monitoring Africa.