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Image credits & licences

Photographs and other third-party images are credited to the people and sources that made them, under the licence each was published with. Photographs set the scene; they are never evidence of anything on the record.

Photographs on this site

Real places in South Africa, from Wikimedia Commons. None shows an identifiable person. Why each was chosen is set out in our sources and licences.

For example “Johannesburg”, “CC BY” or “Take part”.

7 photographs

  • Cape Town under low cloud

    Cape Town in clouds

    Photographer
    Connor Vercueil
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC0 1.0 (external site) · public-domain dedication; credited as a courtesy
    Used on
    Homepage: “Stay informed” record updates (elections); Homepage: closing band

    Credit line: “Cape Town in clouds” by Connor Vercueil, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

  • Sea Point and the Atlantic seaboard of Cape Town seen from Lion’s Head at sunset

    Cape Town sunset from Lion’s Head

    Photographer
    Clinton Naik
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC0 1.0 (external site) · public-domain dedication; credited as a courtesy
    Used on
    Homepage: “Explore Your Ward” card; Homepage: “Stay informed” record updates (boundaries)

    Credit line: “Cape Town sunset from Lion’s Head” by Clinton Naik, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

  • The entrance of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Johannesburg

    Constitutional Court of South Africa, entrance

    Photographer
    André-Pierre
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC BY 2.0 (external site) · attribution required by the licence
    Used on
    Homepage: “Fact Check Claims” card; Homepage: “Stay informed” record updates (representatives)

    Credit line: “Constitutional Court of South Africa, entrance” by André-Pierre, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

  • The Johannesburg skyline at night

    Joburg at night

    Photographer
    Nico Roets
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC BY 2.0 (external site) · attribution required by the licence
    Used on
    Homepage: “Live Election Results” card; Homepage: “Stay informed” record updates (procurement)

    Credit line: “Joburg at night” by Nico Roets, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

  • Ponte City tower in Johannesburg

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    Photographer
    David East
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC0 1.0 (external site) · public-domain dedication; credited as a courtesy
    Used on
    Homepage: “Track Projects” card; Homepage: “Stay informed” record updates (projects)

    Credit line: “Johannesburg, South Africa” by David East, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

  • A silhouetted figure at a high window overlooking Johannesburg

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    Photographer
    Xopher Wallace
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC0 1.0 (external site) · public-domain dedication; credited as a courtesy
    Used on
    Homepage: “Profile Politicians” card

    Credit line: “Johannesburg, South Africa” by Xopher Wallace, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

  • The Parliament of South Africa building in Cape Town

    Parliament of South Africa

    Photographer
    Dietmar Rabich
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons file page (external site)
    Licence
    CC BY-SA 4.0 (external site) · attribution required by the licence
    Used on
    Homepage: “Follow Public Money” card; Homepage: “Stay informed” record updates (public money, party funding)

    Credit line: “Parliament of South Africa” by Dietmar Rabich, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and recompressed for the site; shown cropped to fit each layout.

Photographs supplied by Mandate SA

  • Cape Town at dusk, portraitA woman with long braids looks out over Cape Town at dusk, with Table Mountain and Lion’s Head beyond.Used on: Homepage: opening photograph (phones)Supplied by Mandate SA for this site. Origin and licence to be confirmed by the owner before launch.
  • Cape Town at dusk, wideA woman with long braids looks out over Cape Town at dusk, with Table Mountain and Lion’s Head beyond.Used on: Homepage: opening photograph (wide screens)Supplied by Mandate SA for this site. Origin and licence to be confirmed by the owner before launch.
  • Johannesburg skyline at dusk, portrait cropThe Johannesburg skyline at dusk, with Ponte City and the Hillbrow Tower.Used on: Homepage: interactive map section background (phones)Supplied by Mandate SA for this site. Origin and licence to be confirmed by the owner before launch.
  • Johannesburg skyline at dusk, wideThe Johannesburg skyline at dusk, with Ponte City, the Hillbrow Tower and Ellis Park stadium.Used on: Homepage: interactive map section background (wide screens)Supplied by Mandate SA for this site. Origin and licence to be confirmed by the owner before launch.
  • Reporting a street light at dusk, portrait cropA hand holding a phone at dusk, reporting a broken street light on the street behind it.Used on: Homepage: “Be part of the change” (phones)Supplied by Mandate SA for this site (an illustration of the planned issue-reporting flow). Origin and licence to be confirmed by the owner before launch.
  • Reporting a street light at dusk, wideA hand holding a phone at dusk, reporting a broken street light on the street behind it.Used on: Homepage: “Be part of the change” (wide screens)Supplied by Mandate SA for this site (an illustration of the planned issue-reporting flow). Origin and licence to be confirmed by the owner before launch.

Portraits and party logos on the record

The record holds 443 official portraits and 964 party logos. Each is credited beside the image itself, on the record page that shows it. None is shown until its load has been reviewed and approved, and each is served by its file’s SHA-256 fingerprint.

Maps

Boundaries come from the Municipal Demarcation Board, simplified for display by Mandate SA. Map backgrounds come from OpenFreeMap, built on OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap data; their attribution is shown on every interactive map, as their terms require.

Logo, typefaces, icons and map software

  • The Mandate SA logo and mark. Mandate SA’s own artwork, supplied by its owner; see the brand guidelines. The wordmark was drawn in Montserrat-Arabic SemiBold and is used as outlined artwork; the font files themselves are not used on this website.
  • Typefaces. Plus Jakarta Sans and Inter, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from this website; a small subset of Noto Sans (SIL Open Font License 1.1, © The Noto Project Authors) for South African letters such as Tshivenḓa’s ḓ.
  • Icons. Lucide (ISC licence).
  • Interactive maps. MapLibre GL JS (BSD 3-Clause licence), served from this website.

Still being confirmed

The rights to the photographs supplied by Mandate SA (listed above), including a release for any identifiable person in them, are being confirmed; each says so beside it until then.