Fact-A-Day Archive

In 2013 the black middle class comprised 4.2 million adults with a spending power of over R400 billion. (Unilever Institute’s… Read More

80% of South Africa’s children live in ‘survivor’ households that earn less than R5 000 per month. (Unilever Institute’s A… Read More

70% of the South African population live in households that earn less than R5 000 per month, but they have… Read More

24% of employed people in South Africa are members of a trade union. For the mining and quarrying industries, the… Read More

There are around 10.5 million people employed in the private sector; 56% are entitled to paid sick leave, 41% are… Read More

There are 6.86 million people in South Africa that are either unemployed or discouraged job seekers. Over half of them… Read More