Charts
Child Support Grant cannot feed a child
Cost of meeting a child’s nutritional needs exceeds R560 grant
By The Outlier and GroundUp Staff
Charts | 24 October 2025
How the size of South Africa’s police force compares to other countries
The country has a growing shortage of detectives
By GroundUp and The Outlier
Charts | 10 October 2025
Billions needed to fix courts, prisons and police buildings
Department of Public Works has a R30-billion maintenance backlog
By GroundUp and The Outlier
Charts | 3 October 2025
Passenger rail gets back on track, slowly
Most rail lines have reopened, but there is still a long way to go
By GroundUp and The Outlier
Charts | 26 September 2025
Chart of the week: Getting guns off the streets
Nearly 22,000 guns were confiscated over the past five years. Almost 7,000 confiscated guns were linked to murder cases.
Text by Zora Hollie. Graph by The Outlier.
Charts | 19 September 2025
Chart of the week: Policing the police
Thousands of police brutality cases are reported every year but very few result in criminal convictions or disciplinary action
By GroundUp and The Outlier
Charts | 12 September 2025
Chart of the week: Postbank loses social grant clients
More than 75% of Postbank’s clients have moved to private banks
By GroundUp and The Outlier
Charts | 5 September 2025
Chart of the week: Taps but no water
In most provinces, less than 60% of people in formal housing have reliable water access
By The Outlier and GroundUp Staff
Charts | 29 August 2025