Our work
Series
Each series is a sustained line of inquiry, not a category. This is where reporting builds over time into something a reader can trust.
The Access Economy
Investigating how opportunity in South Africa is gated by ownership, networks, geography, and inherited advantage, and how those systems could be redesigned.
Priced Out
How the housing and property system prices people out of the places that hold jobs and futures.
Municipal Watch
Reading audits, budgets, and procurement records so citizens do not have to, and explaining what they reveal.
Business Builders
The view from the person trying to build something: the barriers facing small and informal businesses.
South Africa Explained
Patient, neutral explanations of the machinery of the state and the economy.
AI & Society
Technology's real distributional effects in a South African context, kept concrete and free of hype.
Data Behind the Headlines
Teaching readers to read the numbers everyone quotes, and to spot when they mislead.
Voices
Conversations with people inside the systems we cover, and signed argument.