64% of the current SA population was born after June 1976 (GHS 2007)

This week’s theme: Fathers and Children

There are 18.5 million pre-paid cell phone users (aged 16+) in SA. Half of them send a ‘please call me’ message on a daily basis. (AMPS2008B)

This week’s theme: Mobiles in SA

80% of households that live in shacks have at least one cellphone, up from 42% in 2005. (AMPS2008B, AMPS2005A)

This week’s theme: Mobiles in SA

5.9 million adults send SMS’s on a daily basis. 9.5 million send a ‘please call me’ message, and 0.6 million send MMS’s (AMPS2008B)

This week’s theme: Mobiles in SA

76% of urban adults who do not receive an income say they personally own, rent or have use of a cellphone. (FutureFact 2008)

This week’s theme: Mobiles in SA

Vodacom says it has 26.45 million South African subscribers. The AMPS survey estimates the figure to be 10.1 million. (Vodacom press release dated 27 January 2009, AMPS2008B)

This week’s theme: Mobiles in SA

The most popular DSTV channels are the MNet Movie channels, with about 2.5 million regular viewers in urban areas. SABC1 has roughly 12.9 million regular viewers in urban areas. (FutureFact 2008)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

69% of urban adults agreed with the statements: ‘TV can encourage violence’ and ‘TV can be a waste of time’. However, 73% of them admitted that they wouldn’t want to do without it. (FutureFact 2008)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

In 2000, the number of people who said they’d watched Etv in the past month was 9.7m. In 2008 it had grown to 20m. On any given week, roughly 2m of these viewers watch WWE Smackdown. (AMPS2008B and TAMS)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

79% of urban adult South Africans agree with the statement ‘TV has ads that generally catch your attention’. For radio, the proportion is 27%. (FutureFact 2008)

This week’s theme: TV in SA