Attacks to commercial ships in the Red Sea have led to companies rerouting their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Suez Canal.
Green hydrogen could have a transformative effect on South Africa: it could be used to clean up domestic industries and its export could add billions to the GDP.
South Africa should ideally have 330 forensic pathologists, an expert says. Instead there are only about 50 working in the public sector.
There were just more than 900,000 South Africans living abroad in 2020, with many choosing Australia and New Zealand as their new home.
Although at least 10-million South Africans are at least three months behind on their repayments, the appetite for credit remains high.
It’s not your imagination – chocolate is getting much more expensive. Falling cocoa production, driven by changing weather patterns, is a key reason.
Two decades ago, two of South Africa’s biggest retailers were almost on a par. We take a look at the metrics to see what has changed since then.
One-third of the R437-million in party donations declared to the IEC was made by Durban-born billionaire Martin Moshal and members of the Oppenheimer family.
The French Canal+ is set to be the top satellite TV provider in Africa, while South Africa’s Showmax and US-based Netflix are facing off in the streaming wars.
The number of women being killed is rising. Data we’ve collected for the past 5 years gives insight into who these women were and what happened to them.
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.
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.
The majority of the 1,300 energy projects registered with South Africa’s national energy regulator between 2018 and 2023 were below 1MW capacity.
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.
Outlier Insights is a new project that makes it easy to view and interrogate datasets – such as 13 years of South African matric results.
As large numbers of properties are turned into short-term rental accommodation for visitors, housing options for local residents decrease.
When programs such as Flourish or Datawrapper don’t have the map format you need, you can make your own custom map. Here’s how.
If you’re planning on building projects in SvelteKit, it needs a slightly different set-up to Leaflet.js. Here’s what you need to do to get it to work.
It has a pretty steep learning curve but it’s definitely worth the effort to learn OpenRefine if you need to clean large amounts of very messy data.
At The Outlier we publish a lot of static graphics and we like to apply our own styles. Here’s how we do it using Flourish and Figma.
Papers, PDFs and poorly scanned documents are the way most data journalism projects begin. But instead of typing up a new spreadsheet, here’s how to use Adobe Acrobat DC to do all the hard work for you.
Both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are powerful spreadsheet programmes for storing and sorting through mounds of data. Here are our favourite formulas for making sense of data.
The 19th World Athletics Championships will be held in Budapest, Hungary from 19-27 August. Download our latest report for at look at the data behind the biennial event.
Zimbabwe heads to the polls on 23 August to elect its president, members of parliament and local councillors. It’s the country’s 8th election since 1990