Together, South Africa’s four largest grocery retailers (Shoprite, Pick n Pay, SPAR, and Woolworths ) increased their number of stores by 263 in the last financial year, an increase of 10%. (Annual Reports)

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Only 3.30% of people in the Eastern Cape have access to DStv, while 12,77% of people in Gauteng have access to DStv(AMPS2006)

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23% of black married women do not live in the same household as their spouse. For white married women, the proportion is under 2%. (LFS 2006)

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38% of South Africans who attended a golfing event in the past year are heavy drinkers of alcohol. For soccer, the proportion is 27%. (AMPS2006A)

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53% of Xhosa speakers definitely agree with the statement “For a boy to become a man, he needs to go through initiation / circumcision”. For Zulu speakers, the figure is 28%. (TGI 2006)

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54% of urban South African men agree with the statement ‘Men should make the decisions in the family and women and children should obey’. 36% of women also agree. (PeopleScape 2006)

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50% of women in South Africa with babies under the age of 2 are single (never married and not living together) (AMPS2006A)

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Housewives with domestic workers are twice as likely to be gin drinkers than those without a domestic worker. (AMPS2006A)

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About 5 million South Africans claim to own, use or maintain a motor vehicle. In total they drive approximately 5.6 billion kilometers per month – a distance equivalent to over 140,000 trips around the earth. (AMPS2006A)

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One fifth of adults aged 16 and over with access to DSTV have tuned in to a cartoon channel in the past seven days. More than half of these viewers are aged 30 or older. (AMPS2006A)

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