Y’ello banking
9.5 million South African adults say MTN is their cellular network provider. 7% (642,000) use the MTN banking facility, the… Read More
Fact-a-day archive
The good old days, still
South Africa’s current mobile interconnect rate is 125c per minute, to be reduced to 89c from 1 March 2010. In… Read More
Everywhere you go in Africa
In 2000, 74% of African cell phone customers were South African. By 2008 this proportion had dropped to 19%. (Information… Read More
Every man, woman and child?
MTN’s South African subscriber base is 16.4 million, Vodacom claims 27.1 million customers, and Cell C has roughly 6.5 million…. Read More
Wanted: Role models
There are 15.4 million children (aged 0 to 17) whose fathers are currently alive. 54% of them say their father… Read More
Wedding race
61% of white South African adults are married or living together. For black South Africans this proportion is 30%. (AMPS2009A)… Read More