Category: The Outlier
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How much do SA municipalities pay their top managers?
Municipal managers are the highest-paid bureaucrats in a municipality.
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A big list of data journalism tools and resources
This list of tools and resources is based on our experience working in data communication. It includes tools that we have used, that we regularly use or know to be useful to anyone looking to perfect their data skills.
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: April 2023
We have included Makro and Boxer Superstores on the list of South African retailers that make up our grocery basket survey. Now, we look at prices from eight stores in Gauteng.
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Two years of Coronavirus in South Africa visualised
Over two years Media Hack collected detailed data on coronavirus in South Africa, and we decided to do something special with all the numbers we’ve collected daily over the past 110 weeks.
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Two in every five public schools don’t have sports facilities
The situation is worse than it was eight years ago, if the education department’s data is anything to go by.
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Did Africa pay more for Covid-19 vaccines?
Countries that made deals with pharmaceutical companies outside of Covax – barring Pfizer – paid more for their vaccines than other nations.
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: March 2023
For the first time in 2023, the Spar basket was not the month’s most expensive, with the Checkers basket taking the top spot. Find out more in our March update.
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Only 7 SA universities included in major world rankings
But how do you get onto a list and does it matter?
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Which PSL football clubs have won the most prize money?
There are five competitions where football clubs can win extra income. Mamelodi Sundowns has won a third of the prize money in the last decade.
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