This repository contains a wide selection of public data from the RSA, as well as the necessary scripts to load it to a database and to analyze it.
The data is partially extracted from public sources, and from semi-public data sources.
This is a scraper for the South African government's database of non-political organisations (NPOs). The code is extracted from the Siyazana project because it may be useful on its own.
Information about all members of the national parliament, their financial declarations and data about political parties and committees. Sourced from the Pombola data provided by PA.
Information about all mines and their owners in RSA, which is part of the directories published by the department.
Let's check out the people owning the largest number of mines in South Africa:
SELECT mine_owner, COUNT(*) FROM sa_mines GROUP BY mine_owner ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC LIMIT 20;