Open data
Data on South African business, free to use
What the directory and our news desk know, as aggregates anyone may download and reuse — for research, reporting, policy and planning. Counts only: no dataset identifies a person.
Businesses by industry
7 columnsEvery industry on the directory: listed businesses, how many are verified or rated, how many provinces they are in, and news stories about the industry in the last 30 days.
industryslugbusinessesverifiedratedprovincesnews_stories_30dBusinesses by province
3 columnsListed businesses per province, with the three largest industries in each. Listings without a province are counted under 'Unknown'.
provincebusinessestop_industriesBusinesses by service
4 columnsHow many listed businesses offer each service, and how many have customer ratings for it.
serviceslugbusinessesrated_for_itEconomic indicators
7 columnsThe figures on our economy page, each with its period, the previous reading and the official source.
indicatorvalueunitpreviousperiodsourcesource_urlWhat the news is about this week
6 columnsTopics in South African business news over the last 7 days: stories, the four weeks before, publishers, and the change in share of coverage.
kindtopicstories_7dstories_prior_28dpublishersshare_changeBusiness calendar feed
iCalendarEvery SARS deadline for the next twelve months, as a feed your calendar subscribes to — Google, Outlook or Apple. It updates itself.
Terms
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Credit “Business.co.za” and link to this page.
- What it counts: businesses listed on Business.co.za — owner-listed and built from public sources — not every business in the country. Quarantined listings are excluded.
- Indicators are reproduced from their official sources, named on every row.
- Freshness: regenerated on request, cached for fifteen minutes.
- Need something else — a cut by municipality, a time series? Ask us.