Sources & Attribution

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 — 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: © 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.

Demographic & area context

On district pages we show population and area as 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.
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.

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 — 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: © 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.

Demographic & area context

On district pages we show population and area as 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.

District area from Wikidata (CC0).