Category: The Outlier
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What Durban’s floods tell us about climate resilience and coastal cities
An investigation of how climate change affects coastal cities and how floods in Durban, South Africa, are an example of how such cities can prepare for the future.
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10 steps to create a custom Svelte component library
Although creating complex sites with multiple components in SvelteKit is pretty simple already, creating a library for your most regularly used components adds even more power to your projects.
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A third of South Africa’s mayors are women
After the local government election in 2021, three of the eight metro municipalities were led by women. Now there is only one.
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What 12 years of clean audits mean for the West Coast District municipality
The municipal manager of the West Coast David Joubert says good audit outcomes impact the evaluation and assessment of a municipality’s credit rating.
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Loading non-essential data behind the scenes in Svelte
Streaming promises makes it simple to fetch data without having the page wait for non-essential data requests to complete before starting to render.
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Remove features from a map with QGIS
There are two small research islands more than 2,000km off the coast of South Africa. When mapping SA data, you generally don’t want to include them. Luckily, it is simple enough to remove the islands in QGIS.
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Cash N Sport’s Nqobile Ndlovu reflects on business of sport in SA
Researcher Nqobile Ndlovu founded Cash N Sport in 2019 to fill the information gap that exists in Africa’s sports business sector and help organisations and the public to better understand the intricacies of sports business.
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Creating a grid overlay for a map using QGIS
There are a number of reasons you may want to make a grid of points covering a geographic area. In my case, I wanted to work out which point in South Africa was the furthest from a police station.
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Ubuntu Football Academy’s Dave Waters on the importance of a life after football
This week, we profile Ubuntu Football Academy junior phase director and author of Dual Dream, Dave Waters.
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Q&A: What you can do if your municipality won’t pay Eskom
If your municipality defaults on its debt to Eskom, you can speak to your municipal manager and petition Nersa. You can also seek legal redress or opt-out and install alternative power.