92% of urban adults agree with the statement ‘It angers me that my taxes are used for luxury cars, body guards and other perks for government officials’. (Futurefact 2009)

This week’s theme: Freedom

There are 716,000 children aged 7 to 18 not attending school. Their most common reason cited, at 25%, is lack of money for fees. (GHS 2008)

This week’s theme: Freedom

The percentage turnout of all eligible voters (voting age population) improved from 58% to 65% between the 2004 and 2009 national and provincial elections. (South Africa Development Indicators 2009)

This week’s theme: Freedom

33.7% of South Africans (16.6 million people) were born after the 1994 elections. (LFS2009Q4)

This week’s theme: Freedom

There are roughly 400,000 households (3.3% of all households) in South Africa with a total monthly households income of R30,000 or more. (Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/6)

This week’s theme: Households, Houses and Homes

South Africa had 207,000 asylum seekers in 2008, more than four times the number in the US. (UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2008)

This week’s theme: Households, Houses and Homes

From December 2003 to December 2008, South Africa’s Appliances CPI grew at a compounded annual growth rate of 0.4%. For the country’s CPIX, the figure is 6.4% per annum (Statistics South Africa)

This week’s theme: Households, Houses and Homes

12% of households say they own but have not fully paid off their houses (Community Survey 2007)

This week’s theme: Households, Houses and Homes

The proportion of households in LSMs one to three has declined from 36% in 2003 to 20% in 2009. (AMPS – various years. LSM stands for Living Standards Measure and is a frequently used basis to segment the consumer market in South Africa)

This week’s theme: Households, Houses and Homes

At 2pm today, April 16th, there will be exactly 4,838,400 seconds to kick-off! (The Eighty20 Predictor)

This week’s theme: South Africa and the World Cup