Profile summary
Babalwa Lobishe is listed as mayor or executive mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay in Eastern Cape. This profile is prepared for the Integrity Index evidence-review workflow. The score below is calculated only from source-linked evidence items recorded after the current source-category review.
Integrity Risk Score
35
Status: Moderate. Evidence items recorded in current evidence table.
Profile status
- Party
- ANC
- Municipality
- Nelson Mandela Bay
- Province
- Eastern Cape
- Municipality type
- Municipality
- Inclusion source
- OpenSanctions / Municipal Money
- Conviction status
- No record in current evidence table
- Criminal charge status
- No record in current evidence table
- Official investigation status
- No record in current evidence table
- Date last reviewed
- 26 June 2026
Evidence table
| Date | Category | Status | Summary | Source | Confidence | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2026 | Inclusion source | Verified for listing | Listed as mayor or executive mayor in the South Africa Municipal Leadership dataset. | OpenSanctions Municipal Leadership dataset | Medium | 0 |
| 2026-03-24 | Official finding | Parliamentary committee accountability finding | Parliament's COGTA committee found Babalwa Lobishe's explanations for Nelson Mandela Bay's repeated failure to respond to formal parliamentary correspondence inconsistent and inadequate, and described the non-response as a broader accountability failure in the Office of the Executive Mayor. This is scored as an adverse official parliamentary finding, not as a criminal finding. Related follow-up statements concern the same matter and are not double counted. | Parliament statement on Mandela Bay accountability breakdown | High | +35 |
| 2026-03-31 | Cleared or contextualised matter | Separate transformer-lease matter cleared by ANC integrity committee | The Herald reported that the ANC's provincial integrity committee cleared Lobishe in a separate transformer-lease matter and said no case or investigation was pending against her. This does not alter the distinct parliamentary accountability finding and carries no points. | The Herald report on ANC integrity-committee clearance | Medium | 0 |
Methodology note
Integrity Index uses a risk-score model where higher scores indicate higher publicly documented integrity risk. For the Mayors page, the first publication establishes the full mayoral roster and profile framework. Evidence scores are only added when a source-linked item has been reviewed against the published Scoring Criteria and Scoring Sources pages.