Quick take: Africa doubles Covid-19 vaccines with donations from US

South Africa is one of the top 10 countries worst affected by Covid-19. We used an interactive timeline to take you through South Africa’s first wave of the pandemic, from our country’s patient zero to the point where restrictions started easing up. 

South Africa is  plagued by blackouts, commonly known as ‘loadshedding’. Using data provided by EskomSePush we tracked these blackouts between 2015 and 2020 to see which stage was most commonly implemented and how many total days of loadshedding were experienced per year. 

How many schools in South Africa have access to the internet? Using data from a number of different sources, including official documents and Parliamentary presentations, we tried to establish exactly how many schools are connected. We then used that data to visualise the change in internet connectivity in schools from 2014 to  2019. 

In order to visualise global temperatures, a major component in climate change, we tracked the average global temperatures over the past century, from 1920 to 2019. Using data from the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, we created an interactive visualisation comparing the average temperatures to see which years stood out.