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1. Rating: 4.50   The good old days, still

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) (2010-02-17)

2. Rating: 4.39   Read all about it

The cost of building and upgrading South Africa's ten World Cup Stadiums cost approximately R13.6 billion. Providing 19,808 government schools with a functioning library would cost R7.9 billion. (We Can't Afford Not To, www.equaleducation.org.za) (2010-03-01)

3. Rating: 4.33   Every man, woman and child?

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) (2010-02-15)

4. Rating: 4.20   Very happy

70% of people say their quality of life in SA is much better than it would be elsewhere (50% feel this strongly). (FutureFact 2009) (2010-02-24)

5. Rating: 4.17   Wanted: Role models

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) (2010-02-12)

6. Rating: 4.12   vodacom4me

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) (2010-02-19)

7. Rating: 4.09   The good old days, still

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) (2010-02-16)

8. Rating: 3.84   Wedding race

61% of white South African adults are married or living together. For black South Africans this proportion is 30%. (AMPS2009A) (2010-02-11)

9. Rating: 3.81   Bullet train

South Africa's first rapid railway, the Gautrain, comes at a cost of R25 billion. South Africa's military expenditure for 2010/11 is expected to be R31 billion. (www.treasury.gov.za, www.gautrain.co.za) (2010-03-04)

10. Rating: 3.78   I now pronounce you, ...

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) (2010-02-10)