Editorial policy

Where the figures come from

A fuel price, levy or over-recovery enters the site only when it was read in a Central Energy Fund sheet or statement, or in a statement of the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. Interest rates come only from the South African Reserve Bank. Each figure is stored with the address of the document and the date it was read. News articles are read to see what readers ask, never to take a number.

How pages are written

No amount is typed into the text. The figures live in two data files built from the documents, and every page computes from them when the site is built, with the same engine as the calculators. An estimate is always labelled as an estimate, with its date and its assumptions.

Money

Radif Partners receives nothing from fuel companies, banks or lenders and links to none of them as a sponsor. There is no advertising today; if some is added it will be labelled and never placed above a calculator.

Updates and corrections

Nothing on the site updates by itself. Each page shows the date its sources were read; after a new statement, the pages keep the earlier figures until the documents are reread, and the date tells you which ones you are looking at. A reported error is checked against the official document and, once fixed, moves that date. Write through the contact page; the assumptions are on the method page.