Pollution
2.4 million South African households (17% of households) say they experience air pollution in their community. 1.9 million households (13%)… Read More
Fact-a-day archive
Close to extinction
13 rhinos were poached in South Africa in 2007, 83 in 2008, 122 in 2009, 333 in 2010 and 448… Read More
Water works
The proportion of the South African population using improved drinking water sources was 91% in 2010, up from 83% in… Read More
More style. Less Price. More customers.
Jet is the most popular store for children’s clothing, with 22% of mothers having purchased childrens’ wear at a Jet… Read More
At sixes and sevens
TheRosenkowitz Sextuplets(born 11 January 1974 in South Africa to Susan Wilson) are the first known set ofsextupletsto survive infancy. Their… Read More
Old wives’ tales
South Africa’s oldest ever woman, Moloko Temo, died (apparently) aged 134 in June 2009. She had 29 grandchildren, 58 great-children… Read More