Author: Gemma Ritchie
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SA is the biggest wind and solar producer in Africa, but most of its energy still comes from coal
While other African countries are taking greater strides compared to South Africa to rely on renewable power even with new renewable plants opening up in SA
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How much do SA municipalities pay their top managers?
Municipal managers are the highest-paid bureaucrats in a municipality.
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Did Africa pay more for Covid-19 vaccines?
Countries that made deals with pharmaceutical companies outside of Covax – barring Pfizer – paid more for their vaccines than other nations.
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6% of taxpayers pay 60% of personal income tax in South Africa
But only one in five of the country’s 40-million working-age people earn enough to pay this tax.
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Is kidnapping on the rise?
The Outlier looked at the latest crime stats for the last three months of 2021 and beyond to see if more kidnapping cases are being reported to the police.
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#SONA2022: How does it compare to the last 5 speeches by Ramaphosa?
2021 was a hard year for South Africa. We endured a second year of Covid-19 pandemic restriction and violent protests and looting. So how did President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address differ from the last 5 SONAs?
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No-fee schools maintain their bachelor pass rate, despite Covid-19
But learners at fee paying schools are much more likely to get a bachelor pass than the 70% of kids who attend the no-fee schools.
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Eight days of protests and looting that shook South Africa
For just over a week in July 2021 chaos reigned in two provinces, sparked by the imprisonment of South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma. We collected tens of thousands of social media posts from Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook posted by ordinary people and media outlets between 8 and 16 July to try to…
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Who’s ruling who? An interactive map of the parties running South Africa’s municipalities
All the hung municipalities have formed councils, so now we can see who runs which municipality.
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How can Africa transform from a vaccine desert to a vaccine hub?
Long dependent on wealthy nations for its vaccine supplies, Africa is starting to build up its own vaccine manufacturing capacity.