Category: The Outlier
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Cape Town’s fire season gets off to an early start
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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R25.42/hour: Making ends meet on a minimum wage
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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Business takes up the challenge of loadshedding
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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83% matric pass rate, but is SA making the grade?
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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Matric exam data can help uncover the state of education
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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Only 65 of 1,000 Nobel prizes awarded to women
And more than half of them have been in the past 20 years.
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What Census 2022 tells us about migration in SA
About 1 in every 4 people living in Gauteng was born in another part of the country.
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Census 2022: Education in South Africa in 4 charts
No early start for 40% of the country’s young children.
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Booked up: Airbnb in Cape Town
As large numbers of properties are turned into short-term rental accommodation for visitors, housing options for local residents decrease.
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Africa’s unrealised solar potential
Africa has 60% of the world’s solar potential but generates 2% of the total solar power.