Category: News
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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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SA municipality tracker
The Outlier Municipality Tracker is updated with the most recent changes in local government.
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Africa Cup of Nations: Which countries have the best-performing teams?
Since 1957, national teams from across Africa have competed for the Afcon title. Three teams stand apart for winning multiple times. Spoiler alert: South Africa isn’t one of them.
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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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Ten years of top scorers: Does SA have a goals problem?
The Premier Soccer League’s leading goal scorers have not been able to score at least 20 goals in a single season for about a decade.
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Matric maths and science numbers remain dismally low
Only a small portion of South Africa’s 2021 matrics took mathematics and physical sciences, and far fewer passed with over 60%.
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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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Have Covid-19 spectator restrictions affected SA’s football teams negatively? Apparently not
Football clubs in South Africa’s Premier Soccer League have not been negatively affected by the Covid-19 restrictions on fans attending stadiums because attendance figures prior to to the pandemic were already low.
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Matrics in 2021 buck school drop-out trends
Grade 12s did not drop out of the system because of Covid-19, in fact more pupils wrote the exams, and the pass rate improved on 2020’s.