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Nearly 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day, with 10 of those daily births to mothers younger than 15
Use our interactive map to see how well each province fared, according to the best data available
The number of kidnappings in South Africa has been increasing sharply over the past year
KwaZulu-Natal’s state facilities are in the lead when it comes to stocking HIV prevention medicines — 97% of them do — and the Western Cape is the only province where men use HIV…
Just under a third of South Africa’s Pfizer vaccines are set to expire by July, so the health department is trying to increase uptake of the doses and donate spare shots
A team working with the country’s Covid ministerial advisory committee uses a formula to keep tabs on the rise of infections. Here’s how it works
Some districts report Caesarean rates of 40%, which is much higher than the 26% national average for public hospitals.
Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
Government departments have spent nearly R65-million in the past year on the salaries of 772 suspended employees.
The 2015 World Happiness Report has been published, and South Africa doesn’t even make it into the the top 10 countries in Africa.
South Africa’s gender wage gap is among the world’s worst, with women earning a third less on average than men.
Oil has driven up the price of office and residential space in the continent’s commercial cities.
There are some big surprises in the most recent tax statistics, but there’s no escaping the endemic disparities in income everywhere.
We looked at the data to see if Zuma had lived up to promises he made in the seven speeches leading up to this year’s State of the Nation address.
Economic growth is slower than expected, government debt is rising. Here’s what the new finance minister plans to do about it.
President Jacob Zuma received more than 140 gifts this past year, including boxes of fruit and Nguni cattle. But money for Nkandla? Mum’s the herd.
There have been 177 permanent and acting directors general in 45 government departments over the past five years.
Who earns how much and what exactly do we spend it on?
A high turnover of government’s senior civil servants has led to poor performance and as much as R44-million a year for them to twiddle their thumbs.
What does the government do with its inconveniently placed DGs? Banish them to the State Information Technology Agency, of course.
