# Civic Ledger

> South Africa’s public economy, documented.

Independent reporting and structured intelligence on municipalities, infrastructure, procurement, public finance, development and the institutions shaping South Africa’s cities.

## About

Civic Ledger is an independent South African publication covering the institutions, contracts, infrastructure and development shaping the country’s cities and economy. It links factual reporting to primary documents and maintains public records of tenders, projects, organisations, municipalities and documents.

## Publication status

Records are verified as of 2026-09-23. Unknown values remain marked as not stated. Draft and unpublished examples are excluded from public pages and data exports.

## Main sections

- [Latest news](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/news/)
- [Tender board](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/tenders/)
- [Infrastructure](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/infrastructure/)
- [Development](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/development/)
- [Municipalities](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/municipalities/)
- [Public finance](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/public-finance/)
- [Companies and institutions](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/companies/)
- [Projects](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/projects/)
- [Documents](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/documents/)
- [Machine-readable data](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/)
- [Editorial standards](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/standards/)

## Machine-readable records

- [Articles JSON](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/articles.json)
- [Tenders JSON](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/tenders.json)
- [Projects JSON](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/projects.json)
- [Organisations JSON](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/organisations.json)
- [Municipalities JSON](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/municipalities.json)
- [Documents JSON](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/data/documents.json)
- [RSS feed](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/sitemap.xml)

## Source standard

Primary sources are preferred: legislation, gazettes, official procurement portals, tender documents, award notices, council records, budgets, annual reports, regulatory filings and court documents.

## Corrections

See [Corrections](https://civic-ledger.cabel.chatgpt.site/corrections/).