HURUmap Land is a joint project of City Press, Rapport, Landbou Weekblad and Code for Africa. The data site gives infomediaries like journalists and civic activists an easy toolkit for finding and embedding interactive data visualizations into their storytelling on land ownership in South Africa. The data that informs the land ownership debate is often contested and incomplete, We will keep sourcing, cleaning and adding data sets to this site, and work towards becoming the authoritative data source on this issue.

HURUmap Land provides useful facts and data about land ownership in South Africa. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site

HURUmap’s underlying data is quality-checked, from reputable official sources including the government Census, PEPFAR and Uwezo. This project is build on software originally created by the Knight Lab in the U.S.A. for their CensusReporter.org project, which has been repurposed by OpenUp and Media Monitoring Africa for Wazimap in South Africa and by Code for Africa for HURUmap in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

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The code for HURUmap Land is available here.