Useful sources about Africa

The Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA) was established by the national Department of Human Settlements. The authority's 2016/17 annual report details progress in social housing, in relation to government’s National Development Plan (NDP) targets.

A policy brief by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on creating adequate housing for people with special needs. It contains findings and recommendations from a research project conducted between July 2016 and March 2017 on the provision of capital funding to build, renovate and extend housing for people with special needs.

The Migrating for Work Research Consortium, a group of academics and government departments, provides a number of reports and fact sheets on labour migration in South Africa.

The South African Chamber of Mines publishes annual statistics on production and safety in the country's mining sector.

The annual SA Mine report, produced by PwC, provides comparative data for South Africa’s mining sector. The findings are based on the financial reports of mining companies with a primary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The 2017 edition includes information on prices, production and market capitalisation per commodity.

The World Nuclear Association’s website provides information on uranium mining, nuclear energy generation and capacity in South Africa. It was last updated in August 2018.

Public domain data on renewable energy is often not entirely accurate or simply cannot be found. Often one has to contact renewable energy companies directly, although they may not be forthright with specs and data. This paucity of site and power station specs gave rise to the development of this online database of South African solar power plants.

The Energy Blog provides a summary of South African solar, wind and other renewable energy projects. However, data may not always be up to date.

A report by the Davis Tax Committee, produced for the minister of finance, on South Africa’s nascent oil and gas sector. It includes a review of the existing tax regime applicable to oil and natural gas production in South Africa, and was published in September 2016.