Outlier Reporter – Page 3

Cape Town’s fire season gets off to an early start

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Is this year’s fire season in the mother city much worse than in previous years? We take a look at the data from the past 10 years to find out.

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Paying for basic services such as transport and electricity can swallow up 60% of a minimum wage, leaving about R1,560 for food and other expenses.

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The majority of the 1,300 energy projects registered with South Africa’s national energy regulator between 2018 and 2023 were below 1MW capacity.

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The class of 2023 recorded the highest matric pass rate since at least 2009. But fewer learners are finishing school and only a third wrote maths.

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Outlier Insights is a new project that makes it easy to view and interrogate datasets – such as 13 years of South African matric results.

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Telling the story of Durban’s 2022 floods was not to document disaster, but rather an investigation into what we can learn from that night