Checked 27 October 2026
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Why it is Verified
Subsidised houses are homes the state helps to pay for. The City cut its target from 537 to 115, so 130 beats the new target. It is about a quarter of the old one. The Auditor-General audited (checked) the part of the City's 2024-25 report that holds this figure. It found no material problems with it. That means no problems big enough to matter. Its audit report does not name each figure it tested.
City of Ekurhuleni. Published 31 August 2025.
Where to look: Page 126, table T3.5.3 'Human Settlements Policy Objectives': subsidised housing units, 2024/25 target 537 (previous year), 'Current Year' target 115, actual 130; serviced sites, 2024/25 target 206, revised target 0, actual 0. 2023/24 actuals: 119 houses, 454 serviced sites
City of Ekurhuleni. Published 26 March 2026.
Where to look: Organisational Performance Scorecard, 'Strategic Objective 1: To deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable services and ensure improved infrastructure maintenance' (PDF page 276); Human Settlements indicator HS1.11 'Number of subsidised housing units constructed using various Human Settlements Programmes' (PDF pages 280-281, printed page 279): annual target 115, annual actual 130, 'Performance achieved'. Table T3.5.3 (PDF page 146, printed page 145): subsidised housing units, 2024/25 target 537 (previous year) and 115 (current year), actual 130; serviced sites 206, 0 and 0.
Auditor-General of South Africa. Published 23 March 2026.
Where to look: Paragraph 30 (page 5): the strategic objective selected for audit, 'To deliver reliable, affordable and sustainable services and ensure improved infrastructure maintenance', purpose 'To promote integrated human settlements by ensuring access to basic services'. Paragraph 32 (page 6): 'my procedures focused on the material indicators relating to water, electricity, sanitation, human settlements and related infrastructure.' Paragraph 34: procedures 'for the purpose of reporting material findings only, and not to express an assurance opinion or conclusion'. Paragraph 35: 'I did not identify any material findings on the reported performance information for the selected strategic objective.' Signed Johannesburg, 23 March 2026 (page 10).
What did the council do, and when?
Who ran the council
Mayor: Nkosindiphile Xhakaza (ANC). Council run by ANC, EFF, African Independent Congress. From Apr 2024 to Feb 2026.
City of Ekurhuleni. Published 18 October 2026.
Where to look: Opening line: 'was elected as the Executive Mayor on 11 April 2024 during an extraordinary council meeting' (page undated; date = day read)
Daily Maverick. Published 11 April 2024.
Where to look: Paragraph 3: Xhakaza elected unopposed as executive mayor at an extraordinary council meeting on Thursday 11 April 2024
EWN. Published 15 April 2024.
Where to look: Paragraph 2 (EFF retains its five mayoral committee seats, ANC has four); paragraph 3 (former mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana is MMC for Corporate and Shared Services); the embedded EWN post below the article names him as AIC
Daily Maverick. Published 19 February 2026.
Where to look: Paragraph 1 (reshuffle on Tuesday night); paragraph 4 (EFF turned down two posts, had four, pulled out of the coalition); paragraph 6 (coalition of ANC, EFF, ActionSA and PA)
IOL. Published 18 February 2026.
Where to look: Paragraphs 21-22: ActionSA says it was not part of any agreement and will not join the mayor's government
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