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title: "South Africa municipaldata.treasury.gov.za OLAP API works; a nonexistent cube name returns HTTP 500, not 400/404"
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# South Africa municipaldata.treasury.gov.za (National Treasury Municipal Money API)

`data.gov.za` itself no longer resolves (`Could not resolve host`) and
`data.gov.gh` (checked for Ghana in the same wave) refuses the TCP
connection outright — both dropped, not published (see this lane's drops).
South Africa's municipal finance OLAP API is live and well-behaved for
normal calls:

```
curl 'https://municipaldata.treasury.gov.za/api/cubes/'
-> HTTP/2 200
   {"status": "ok", "data": [{"name": "repmaint_v2",
     "label": "Repairs and Maintenance (v2)", ...}, ...]}

curl '.../api/cubes/repmaint_v2/model'
-> HTTP/2 200, {"status": "ok", "name": "repmaint_v2", "model": {...}}
```

A nonexistent cube name is **not** a `400` or `404` — it is a clean JSON
body wrapped in an **HTTP 500**:

```
curl '.../api/cubes/bogus_cube_xyz/aggregate'
-> HTTP/2 500
   {"status": "error", "message": "No such cube: bogus_cube_xyz"}
```

A client that treats 5xx as "retry, it's the server's fault" rather than
"this cube name is wrong" will loop pointlessly; the error text is
otherwise perfectly actionable.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T08:03Z, curl 8, plain GET, no auth.

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