LEGO, meet dataviz
What do you get if you mix everyone's favourite plastic brick with a penchant for graphing things? It's Sam Shannon's Life inside the box, or 365 days of lockdown measures in LEGO.
Lockdown
The drinking habits of the South African
Two-thirds of South Africans won't have missed booze during the long dry months of prohibition. So says fact-checking site Africa Check which backed up health minister Zweli Mkhezi's claim that only 31% of locals drink this week. The minority of those who do partake in a dram or two more than mak...
Going nowhere fast
News that Zambia has just opened its borders to travellers who can produce a recent negative Covid-19 test certificate made us want to find more information about which other countries are loosening up international restrictions. And as this updated map from Kayak shows, the answer is "not many"....
130m litres of beer to get rid of? Challenge accepted
There's no let up to the anguish on South African Facebook and WhatsApp as middle-class pantries and wine racks run bare of booze, yet will the government listen to their plight? They will not. Prohibition remains in place, and as a result the brewery formerly known as SAB (now AB Inbev) says it ...