Profile summary
Boniswa Elizabeth Ponoshe is listed as mayor or executive mayor of Sakhisizwe 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
25
Status: Moderate. Evidence items recorded in current evidence table.
Profile status
- Party
- ANC
- Municipality
- Sakhisizwe
- 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
- Recorded
- 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 |
| 2026-05-29 | Official investigation | Eastern Cape CoGTA preliminary misconduct investigation pending in public record | Komani News reported, with confirmation from the Eastern Cape CoGTA MEC's spokesperson, that the MEC initiated a preliminary misconduct investigation into Mayor Boniswa Elizabeth Ponoshe over alleged municipal fuel-card abuse and related Councillors' Code of Conduct concerns. This is scored as an official investigation, not as a finding or criminal charge, and the overlapping earlier police investigation is not counted separately. | Komani News report on CoGTA misconduct investigation | Medium | +25 |
| 2026-05-30 | Cleared or contextualised matter | Director of Public Prosecutions declined criminal prosecution | The same report records that the Director of Public Prosecutions declined to prosecute Ponoshe in the fuel-card case as of 30 May 2026. This carries no points and is retained to distinguish the concluded criminal-prosecution decision from the separate CoGTA misconduct process. | Komani News report on prosecution decision and separate CoGTA process | 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.