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Open Gazettes South Africa website

License: MIT License

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opengazettes's Introduction

Gazette listing

This is a simple Jekyll website listing South African Gazettes that Code for South Africa has scraped and indexed and stored in S3 as part of our gazette liberation project.

The structure is simple. Each jurisdiction (province) and year has an entry in the _gazettes directory, which Jekyll treats as a collection. All the gazette info is taken from _data/gazettes.json which is grouped by jurisdiction and year. Jekyll then does the hard work of generating the listings for each jurisdiction and year.

Running locally

Clone the repo
Run bundle install
Run jekyll server --watch

Updating

To update this list from the production index:

curl http://archive.opengazettes.org.za/index/gazette-index-latest.jsonlines -O
python bin/build-index.py

Build process

The website is built automatically by GitHub pages based on the Gazette information already in the repository.

The build branch has code that updates the information in the repository from the Gazette index in S3. A Travis build for this branch is triggered automatically when we archive new Gazettes in S3.

License

MIT License.

opengazettes's People

Contributors

Stargazers

Watchers

Forkers

dagelf gazeti kurhula jamison413

opengazettes's Issues

Link to Atom feed

Link to the JSONLINES file to help devs

Updates to the About page

Suggested update to text on the About page:

Government gazettes are a crucial source of actionable information about both government and the corporate sector.

Gazettes include everything from government tenders and regulations, to changes of names (both for people and places) and estate notices after deaths, as well as company registrations and deregistrations, financial statements, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications and transport permits, and much more.

Public access, free of charge, is however difficult. Physical copies are available at Thusong Service Centres and some libraries, but online access is spotty and fragmented. National and provincial copies are printed weekly, along with separate issues for liquor licenses, tender bulletins and legal notices. Some provinces, such as the Free State, charge for access.

Open Gazettes aims to change this, by building South Africa's largest collection of searchable online government gazettes, available to the public free of charge.

The initiative is spearheaded by the civic technology team at Code for South Africa (Code4SA), in partnership with the Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) and African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), with support from Indigo Trust and Code for Africa.

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