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Open Data Durban (but please don't call them odd)
Open Data Durban, founded by Richard Gevers (@richardgevers) is up and running. Whoop Whoop!
Mapping Cape Town's budget
A new website from social activist organisations Ndifuna Nkwazi, the Social Justice Coalition and International Budget Partnership, which uses modern data journalism techniques, is helping make the Cape Town budget both accessible and interesting.
Why you should feed the trolls
"Don't feed the trolls" is part of the Internet folklore, passed down from father to son, mother to daughter. I would like to challenge that idea and explain why sometimes you need to engage with the trolls.
11 excuses people give for not paying a living wage
We recently launched our Living Wage calculator, a tool that helps you decide whether you are paying your domestic worker enough. The response was overwhelming, mostly positive but also many negative (and downright racist). In this post I examine some common excuses that naysayers give when justifying why they pay low wages.
Opening up 17 years of Parliamentary monitoring
Together with PMG.org.za we've made 17 years worth of Parliamentary monitoring information open and available through an API under a CC-BY 3.0 ZA license.