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The rubric awards its highest content mark where "all claims are supported with appropriate sources". This page is where that is demonstrated.

This page is a checklist until the team fills it in

Every row below is a claim made somewhere in this resource that needs a real source behind it. Work down the list. Anything still marked to source at submission is an unsupported claim, and the rubric penalises exactly that.

Claims that need a source

Claim	Where to look	Used on	Status
Data, information and knowledge The DIKW distinction	Prescribed INF1781 textbook — edition, chapter and page	On this page →	to source
Information quality dimensions The six (or however many your textbook lists) dimensions	Prescribed textbook, plus any data-quality reference you use	On this page →	to source
Data visualisation principles Chart choice, truncated axes, misleading comparisons	A recognised visualisation source — Few, Tufte, or your textbook's chapter	On this page →	to source
Tax invoice particulars What must appear on a tax invoice	SARS guidance and the Value-Added Tax Act	On this page →	to source
Record retention periods How long business records must be kept	SARS; the Companies Act if relevant	On this page →	to source
POPIA — the Act itself The eight conditions, and every section number cited on the POPIA page	Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013	On this page →	to source
POPIA — Regulator guidance Information Officer registration, breach notification, penalties	Information Regulator of South Africa	On this page →	to source
POPIA — direct marketing Section 69 and what counts as consent	The Act, plus Regulator guidance	On this page →	to source
POPIA — cross-border transfer Section 72, for cloud services hosted abroad	The Act	On this page →	to source
POPIA — automated decisions Section 71, if you keep the automated-credit-decision point	The Act	On this page →	to source
Decision types Structured, semi-structured, unstructured	Prescribed textbook	On this page →	to source
Analytics maturity Descriptive through prescriptive	Prescribed textbook or a reputable analytics source	On this page →	to source
Algorithmic bias Why a model trained on past behaviour repeats it	A reputable source — academic or a recognised institution	On this page →	to source
Enterprise systems definitions ERP, CRM, POS, inventory management	Prescribed textbook	On this page →	to source
Software pricing Every rand figure on the roadmap page	The vendors' own published pricing pages, with the date you checked	On this page →	to source
SME digital adoption in South Africa Any claim about how small businesses here operate	Statistics South Africa, a bank or business-association SME report	On this page →	to source
Load shedding and small business The claim that outages are a design constraint	A credible South African source	On this page →	to source

Reference list

Team writes this author: Oratile Nare

Compile the reference list in your required citation style

Cover, in your own words:

Use the citation style your department requires. Be consistent — a mixed-style list reads as careless.
For legislation, cite the Act properly, including the Act number and year.
For vendor pricing, include the URL and the date you accessed it. Prices change; an undated price is unverifiable.
For the textbook, include the edition — section numbers and page references differ between editions.
Cross-check: every claim in the table above should appear here, and nothing here should be uncited in the body text.

Replace this card with the finished list

Keep it alphabetical, or grouped by type (legislation, books, web sources) with each group alphabetical. Either is defensible; mixing them is not.

A note on the demonstration data

Every person, business, supplier, customer and transaction in the live demonstration is invented for this project. The twelve months of trading is produced by a seeded generator in data/seed.js, which means the same figures appear every time the resource is opened. No real personal information is used anywhere in this resource, and nothing in it is drawn from a real business's records.

Where the demonstration states a quantity — R23 798 of dead stock, 38.3% gross margin, 20.9% customer concentration — that figure is calculated from the invented data set and is presented as an illustration of what such a system would surface, not as a claim about any real South African business.