Category: The Outlier
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: October 2022
For two months in a row, Spar’s basket has been the most expensive option. Shoprite’s has been the most affordable since we added the retailer to the list in August.
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World Cup 2022: What are Africa’s chances in Qatar?
Africa could reach new heights at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with some of Europe’s club football high flyers making up the core of the qualifying teams from the continent.
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SA business spending on R&D in decline
Before 2006, businesses used to match the government’s spending on research and development in South Africa, now the government spends more.
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More than 1,000 kidnappings a month have been reported since January
One province is driving this increase – Gauteng
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Home burglaries have dropped in all the previous hotspots. See what your local station looks like
The latest crime stats show that fewer home burglaries have been reported this year at the 10 police stations that reported the highest number of cases before Covid.
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How – and why – we switched from interactive to static data visualisations
Making the change to static charts with limited options has completely changed the way we think about the visualisations we do. The ’constraints‘ we’ve applied remove a lot of the decision-making usually found in design.
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: September 2022
Spar’s basket was the most expensive option this month and Shoprite’s was the cheapest. The same bag of groceries differed by R48. Find out more in our September 2022 update.
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How would you fare against world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge?
Eliud Kipchoge has broken the world marathon record again. But how fast is he really? And how would you compare?
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Sitting on top of a snow-less Kilimanjaro
The mountain’s glaciers have a few more years before they are gone. Scientists say sun radiation, too little snow and rising temperatures all contribute to their disappearance.
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Only 1% of monkeypox cases are in Africa
The disease has been around in Africa since the 1970s, but so far only 12 countries have reported cases during this year’s outbreak