Yebo for more
The number of adults with a prepaid cell phone subscription has quintupled (5x) from 2000 to 2007. In 2000, 3… Read More
Fact-a-day archive
A lot, granted
12.4 million South Africans receive a social grant. The number of child support grant recipients has increased by 25% per… Read More
Up, by degrees
In 1970, 1% of the South African workforce had a tertiary education. By 1995 this proportion had climbed to 17%,… Read More
the difference
24% of Woolworth Food’s customers have a personal income of R10,000 per month or or more. Of the other major… Read More
Everywhere you go, the better connection
In 2000, 16% of South African adults had a cell phone. By 2007, this proportion had grown to 56% (AMPS2007B)… Read More
Break a leg in the Western Cape
73% of households in the Western Cape can get to a hospital within 30 minutes, using their usual mode of… Read More