KZN CTG 25-Apr to 8-May

This fortnight saw the most submissions per day for Cards-to-Green in KZN since the middle of February.
We have had 14 cards submitted, two of which were for empty pentads, while another 4 were for pentads with only one card. There was also a good mix of observers, some having submitted for the first time in some years.

As we have come to expect, there was some good movement in the north, with three cards in 2732, and another in 2632.
The west also saw movement with cards in 2829, 2830 and 2929.
One card for 2930 saw this degree square continuing it's slow march to CTG closure, with only 43 cards needed now.
There was also some movement in the south with 3028, 3030 and 3130 receiving 4 cards in total and the two empty pentad cards.
The issue of which pentads are allocated to which province remains problematical as it is quite difficult to allocate these. According to my calculations we should have had 2 empties receiving cards, while according to the SABAP2 website, one of these was allocated to the Eastern Cape. In any event we have achieved better coverage for the whole of SABAP2.

The credits table also shows some good news with two observers who last submitted some years ago making a return. Welcome back Malcolm Rivett and Paul Bartho.
In fact, Malcolm leads the table this fortnight with 3 cards, followed by John and Kim Cox, Tim Wood and Trish Strachan all with 2 cards.
Alan Manson, Andy Branfield, Ewert Hauptfleisch, Lia Steen and Paul Bartho all contributed a card.
Thanks to all of these observers, these contributions are especially valued.

Looking at the overall KZN front, we have good movement in most areas. Not only has the the number of empty pentads decreased slightly, but we have had cards submitted for four pentads that only had one card. We also have 5 pentads added to those with seven or more cards, this is 28.3% of KZN's area. This keeps us quite competitive with Mpumalanga who are on 29.2% and the Western Cape on 28.5%. Both of these provinces had been drawing away from us.
In terms of daily submissions of cards we have moved right back up to 9.3 cards/day in the last fortnight, which is well above our average of 7.6. To give some background, the project figure is 56.1 cards/day for the last fortnight, made up by 12.6 from the Western Cape, 9.3 from KZN, 6.5 from Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, and 5.4 each from Mpumalanga and Limpopo. As such we compare quite well with the other provinces.
As in the last fortnight, our records/card figure has not dropped significantly either, we managed 52.5 records/card against 53.9 and 54.1 for the last two periods. The trend is definitely downward as expected as we go into winter, this is slower than usual though.