electricsheepafrica/africa-south-africa-capital-acquisition-2012-2d2e82e6

Capital Acquisition - 2012 | Africa (South Africa official open data)

1,903,848 rows - 1 Africa country - 2012-2023 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from South Africa as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Capital Acquisition - 2012
• Publisher: National Treasury, South Africa
• Resource: Capital Acquisition - 2012
• Format: CSV
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
ZAF	1,903,848	2012	2023	South Africa

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	Int64	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	ZAF
country_name	category	Country name.	South Africa
demarcation_code	string	Source column.	KZN293
period_code	string	Source column.	2012AUDA
function_code	int64	Source column.	102
item_code	int64	Source column.	100
new_assets	int64	Source column.	0
renewal_of_existing	float64	Source column.	``
total_assets	int64	Source column.	0
repairs_maintenance	float64	Source column.	``
asset_register_summary	float64	Source column.	``
id	int64	Source column.	13639150
financial_year	int64	Source column.	2012
period_length	string	Source column.	year
financial_period	int64	Source column.	2012
amount_type_code	string	Source column.	AUDA
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2012
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2023
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2012-2023
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	National Treasury, South Africa
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Capital Acquisition - 2012
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Capital Acquisition - 2012
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	capital-acquisition-2012-municipal-money-e465c6f41a46ce
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	municipal-money-e465c6f41a46ce
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://munimoney-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/munimoney-media/media
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-22T19:25:13Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-south-africa-capital-acquisition-2012-2d2e82e6")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "ZAF"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_south_africa_capital_acquisition_2012_2d2e82e6_2023,
  title        = {Capital Acquisition - 2012 | Africa (South Africa official open data)},
  author       = {National Treasury, South Africa},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://municipaldata.treasury.gov.za/docs#cube-capital},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-south-africa-capital-acquisition-2012-2d2e82e6}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) National Treasury, South Africa. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-22 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://munimoney-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/munimoney-media/media/bulk_downloads/capital_facts_v1/capital_facts_v1_2012__2023-09-01.csv