Youth in towns and villages are more likely to have complete confidence in the ANC Youth League than their city counterparts (48% vs 40%). Around 27% of both youth groups have confidence in Julius Malema. (FutureFact 2009)

This week’s theme: Futurefact 2009

In the 2008 Futurefact survey 72% of youth aged 16-24 said they intended to vote in the forthcoming election while in the 2009 survey, only 47% claimed to have actually done so. (FutureFact 2009)

This week’s theme: Futurefact 2009

The average revenue per user (ARPU) of Vodacom customers is R140 per month. Thus 7,143 customers are required to fund Alan Knott-Craig’s R1 million per month post-retirement retainer. (Vodacom press release 2 February 2010, www.timeslive.co.za)

This week’s theme: Cell phones in SA

9.5 million South African adults say MTN is their cellular network provider. 7% (642,000) use the MTN banking facility, the MTN Mobile Money account. (AMPS2009A)

This week’s theme: Cell phones in SA

South Africa’s current mobile interconnect rate is 125c per minute, to be reduced to 89c from 1 March 2010. In 1994, it was 20c, worth about 50c in today’s terms. (mybroadband.co.za, StatsSA)

This week’s theme: Cell phones in SA

In 2000, 74% of African cell phone customers were South African. By 2008 this proportion had dropped to 19%. (Information Society Statistical Profiles 2009 Africa, ITU)

This week’s theme: Cell phones in SA

MTN’s South African subscriber base is 16.4 million, Vodacom claims 27.1 million customers, and Cell C has roughly 6.5 million. This brings the total claimed South African cell phone subscriber base to 50 million, more than the total population of South Africa, 49.1 million. (mtn-investor.com, Vodacom News Release 2 Feb 2010, www.ogertelecom.com, LFS 2009Q3)

This week’s theme: Cell phones in SA

There are 15.4 million children (aged 0 to 17) whose fathers are currently alive. 54% of them say their father is not part of their household. (GHS 2008)

This week’s theme: Husbands and wives

61% of white South African adults are married or living together. For black South Africans this proportion is 30%. (AMPS2009A)

This week’s theme: Husbands and wives

In 2008, there were 186,522 civil marriages, 16,003 customary marriages, and 732 civil unions. In 2007 there were 80 civil unions. (StatsSA Marriages and Divorces, 2008)

This week’s theme: Husbands and wives