The biggest collection of freely available gazettes in South Africa

Open Gazettes

Gazettes are a critical source of information and record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone.

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Code for South Africa and SAFLII need your help to build the largest digital collection of freely available gazettes.

By building a series of programs used to source, scrape and index government gazettes, we now have a growing collection of over 20,000 free and searchable publications.

Civic Technology

Open Gazettes changes the way journalists use government gazettes to do stories, by allowing users to search and track important public information.

Citizen Empowerment

We've made official government gazettes available online and searchable, so you no longer have to sift through them to source important, public information.

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