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The hottest ground in your city: every ward’s summer heat, measured from space
every temperature now says when it was measured: clear summer mornings, December to February, about 10 am.
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How clean is your air? Nitrogen dioxide in every municipality, and its sources from space
the film and story now show the sources from space and what the air means for your health.
The same 500 kWh costs twice as much in Cederberg as in eThekwini
We first ranked Buffalo City at R1,852 on “Scale 1C-3: Pensioners, domestic (prepaid and credit)”, a tariff only households that qualify can be on, which our filter missed. It isn't ranked now: it has no tariff open to every household for a 60 A single-phase supply (its only other household tariff, “Scale 1A: Domestic and commercial, credit, single-phase (70 A)”, is for another supply). Tariffs for pensioners, low-cost or RDP homes and staff are now left out, as tariffs for indigent households, lifeline and free basic electricity already were. The figures this changes: distributors ranked, now 123 (was 124); the middle bill, now R1,929 (was R1,927); the middle half of bills, now R1,737 to R2,138 (was R1,737 to R2,133); distributors charging a small user less per unit, now 53 (was 54). No other figure changes. We've also taken out what homes that buy straight from Eskom pay: it came from Eskom's own price schedule, which Eskom's terms don't allow us to republish.
Story corrections
Every correction and update we’ve made to a published story, newest first. Corrections to the data itself are on Data corrections.