47% of South African adults read newspapers. In 2005 the figure was 40%. (AMPS2009B, AMPS2005A)
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Very interesting: so does this mean that literacy or interest in current affairs is going up? Or interest in the classifieds?
I was expecting it to fall, based on the fact that news is available online these days. A lot of people I know never buy newspapers- they just got online.