Category: News
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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.
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: December 2022
We’ve added a new store to our grocery basket comparison. Now, we look at the in-store prices of the same basket of goods across six major retailers.
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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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In the race against new variants, Africa ups genome sequencing
Genome research enables scientists to identify coronavirus mutations and is vital for vaccine development
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New, small and community parties that will shape local government
Small parties got more votes this election. Over 1,200 council seats were won by candidates from smaller parties, compared with 500 after the 2016 poll.
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Hung councils and low voter turnout are the main features of the 2021 elections
The number of municipalities that will be run by coalitions has more than doubled. Is this what the future of local government looks like?
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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.
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What we can learn about municipal elections from the one held in 2016
There were 178 by-elections held since the elections in which 79 council seats changed hands.