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Nothing to declare: The Illusion of Transparency in South Africa’s Parliamentary Disclosures
MP disclosures lack accessibility and consistency, weakening oversight. A structured, searchable format would improve transparency and oversight.
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Tracking progress: The data issues facing South Africa's BRRRs
ParliMeter conducted a comprehensive investigation into how easy (or not) it is to track budgetary recommendations from year to year.
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Toilets Of Despair: Dirty, Broken Toilets at Clinics Speak of Systemic Neglect
For World Toilet Day, our community journalists, Molefi Sompane, Montsho Matlala and Sandile Mbili visited 31 primary health facilities and spoke to…
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Testing new ways to bring data skills to newsrooms
OpenUp’s reflections on a year and a half of data journalism help.
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Inanda Dam and its impact on the local community
Data journalism isn’t just about producing visualisations and complex interactives. The ability to interrogate and analyse data is an important set…
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Should we be surprised by the situation in Hammanskraal?
As awful as the situation in Hammanskraal is, the problem of access to clean water is a major national health issue. 700 (of 1130) wastewater…
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Empowering Yourself: How to Access Information through PAIA
A primer on how to use South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act
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Simple tech tool helps to expose huge Lottery corruption
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Drip by Drip: Creating a Water Commons
Despite its overwhelming importance, hard data on water access and quality is hard to come by. A small band of journalists and civic tech groups are…
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Data, Digging & Doggedness: Investigating the National Lottery Commission
It all started in a lecture hall when about a dozen investigative journalists came together to talk shop and drink wine out of polystyrene cups…
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Reporting tool gets a facelift in time for elections
Pocket Reporter, your personal “news editor in your pocket”, has been given a makeover that includes lots of new election reporting templates and…
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How we helped a journalist fill out 26,000 information request forms in under an hour
A non-technical solution for populating and duplicating application forms.
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