Placemint combines authoritative reference material with openly-licensed public data. This page lists what we rely on and the attribution each source requires. We summarise facts in our own words and cite the source. We do not republish source text. For how we handle accuracy and corrections, see our methodology.
Training & qualifications
Our internship, community-service and qualification pages summarise publicly documented facts, citing the responsible bodies. These sources hold their own copyright; we link rather than copy them.
- Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA): diplomas, fellowships, higher diplomas and sub-specialty certificates.
- Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA): registration and accreditation.
- National Department of Health: internship and community-service placement (ICSP).
- South African universities, for medical-school and faculty information.
Facility & location data
As we verify and enrich facility details (location, type and contact information) from openly-licensed datasets, the affected records carry their source and the attributions below apply:
- Map and location data, and — for a small number of Eastern Cape, North West and Northern Cape public facilities where no official provincial directory exists — facility names and locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL), via OpenStreetMap and HealthSites.io.
- Cross-referenced facility data from Wikidata (CC0, public domain).
- Hospital bed counts and operational attributes from the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) covid19za dataset (University of Pretoria, CC-BY 4.0).
- Selected Cape Town facility addresses from City of Cape Town Open Data.
- Western Cape public-facility list, addresses and operating hours from the Western Cape Government (EDAT facilities directory).
- Selected facility street addresses from the Department of Home Affairs list of connected health facilities per province.
- KwaZulu-Natal facility lists, locations and contact details from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health (provincial clinic, hospital and community-health-centre directories).
- Mpumalanga facility lists and contact details from the Mpumalanga Department of Health (primary-health-care facility and hospital contact lists).
- Limpopo facility lists and contact details from the Limpopo Department of Health (per-district clinic and hospital contact directories).
- Gauteng facility lists and contact details from official metro and provincial directories — the City of Ekurhuleni, City of Johannesburg, and the Gauteng Provincial Government services directory.
- Free State facility lists and contact details from the Free State Department of Health contact booklet. The year of this source is shown on the affected facility records.
Demographic & area context
On district and province pages we show population, services and healthcare-access context. These figures are real and attributed:
- District population and household-services figures (electricity, piped water, sanitation, refuse) from Statistics South Africa, Census 2022 Municipal Fact Sheet (Report 03-01-82), used with acknowledgement of Stats SA as the source. The year is shown on each district page.
- Province-level healthcare-access figures (medical-aid coverage, and the share of households whose normal place of care is the public health sector) from Statistics South Africa, General Household Survey 2025 (P0318).
- Province-level official unemployment rate from Statistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Q2 2025 (P0211), shown as socioeconomic context for public-healthcare reliance.
- District area from Wikidata (CC0).
What we don’t do
We do not invent or estimate statistics, and we do not label areas as “high-risk.” Any figure on Placemint should be traceable to one of the sources above. Spotted something that looks wrong? Tell us and we’ll review it.