Category Archives: Announcements

Media advisory: South Africa hosts inaugural United Nations World Data Forum on Sustainable Development Data

Media advisory                                                                                                             read more »


Media Invite: QES Q3 of 2016

MEDIA ADVISORY                                                                                  08 December 2016 Statistician-General to release formal sector employment statistics for the third quarter of 2016 The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for the third quarter of 2016. The QES measures changes in employment across all industries in the formal sector of the economy.   read more »


Media invite: Stats SA’s new building official opening

Media advisory                                                                                                         07 December 2016 Minister Radebe officially opens Statistics South Africa’s new Green Building Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Honourable Jeff Radebe, will officially open Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) new head office building at a ceremony to be held on Monday, 12 December 2016. The Honourable Minister   read more »


Media invite: GDP Q3 of 2016

Media advisory                                                                                                              01 December 2016          Statistician-General to release Gross domestic product (GDP), Q3 2016     The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will release the Gross   read more »


Media advisory: Minister Gigaba and Statistician-General Lehohla to brief the media on partnership between the Department of Home Affairs and Statistics South Africa aimed at improving service delivery

Media advisory                                                                                                           18 November 2016 Home Affairs partners with Stats SA for the digitisation of South Africa’s civil records for improved service delivery The Minister of Home Affairs, Honourable Malusi Gigaba, together with the Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, will launch a project on the digitisation of Home Affairs civil records on   read more »


Media invite: Gender Patterns in Transport: Water and Sanitation reports

MEDIA ADVISORY                                                                                                             read more »


Media Release: QLFS Postponement

Media Release                                                                                                    14 November 2016   Postponement of the QLFS Q3:2016 report   The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) Q3:2016 has been postponed to the 22 November 2016 at 12:00.   Issued by Statistics South Africa     For media enquires Ms Lesedi Dibakwane Director: Media Relations Tel: 012 310 8578 Cell: 082 805 7088 Email:   read more »


Media Release: Postponement of QLFS

Media Release                                                                                                    31 October 2016   Postponement of the QLFS Q3:2016 report   The QLFS Q3:2016 has been postponed to the 15 November 2016 at 11:30. Data collection took more time than expected and this led to a delay in all the downstream processes.   Issued by Statistics South Africa   For media enquires Ms   read more »


How important are student fees?

How important are student fees?

Armed with a wealth of recent financial data from South Africa’s higher education institutions, Stats SA unpacks the revenue mix for the country’s 20 universities and 6 universities of technology. Higher education institutions depend mostly on government grants and tuitions fees for income, according to data from Stats SA’s latest Financial statistics of higher education   read more »


Media advisory: MEC Jacob Mamabolo and Statistician-General Dr Pali Lehohla collaborate on the use of statistical data to advance Gauteng Public Infrastructure Planning and Monitoring

18 October 2016 Media advisory   MEC Jacob Mamabolo and Statistician-General Dr Pali Lehohla collaborate on the use of statistical data to advance Gauteng Public Infrastructure Planning and Monitoring   The Statistician-General of South Africa Dr Pali Lehohla, together with MEC Jacob Mamabolo, will brief the media on the planned collaboration between Stats SA and   read more »