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Gauteng municipalities lead the way in income generation from households
Municipalities in Gauteng province are better off in terms of generating their own revenue in the form of services provided to households, while at the same time they are also getting a bigger share of the grants and subsidies received from both national and provincial governments in proportion to the increase in total population. Â The read more »
Empowering communities through statistics
Do you know how many people live in your community? How many are unemployed? Do you know how many households in your area have access to safe water, electricity and refuse removal? While information at a national level can be interesting, what people really want is to know about the place where they live. To read more »
Offences and penalties
18. (1) Any officer of Statistics South Africa who, in the course of his or her employment in terms of this Act— (a) wilfully makes any false declaration, statement or return; (b) obtains or seeks to obtain information that he or she is not duly authorised to obtain; (c) puts to any person a question read more »
Duties and powers of Council
13. (1) The Council must advise the Minister, the Statistician-General or an organ of state which produces statistics with regard to— (a) matters referred to the Council by the Minister, the Statistician-General or that organ of state; (b) any matter regarding the collection, processing, analysis, documentation, storage and dissemination of statistics, including the taking of read more »
Statistician-General’s duties and powers
7. (1) The Statistician-General— (a) administers this Act; (b) is the accounting officer for Statistics South Africa; (c) after receiving advice from the Council, makes recommendations to the Minister on the policies and priorities of Statistics South Africa; (d) directs Statistics South Africa in accordance with the duties and powers imposed or conferred on him read more »
Minister’s duties and powers
5. (1) The Minister must— (a) on the recommendation of the Statistician-General, prioritise the work programme of Statistics South Africa, in accordance with the purpose of official statistics and the statistical principles contemplated in section 3 and both having been advised in this regard by the Council; (b) monitor the performance of the Statistician-General of read more »
Mbalo brief – July 2024
A global outbreak of Mpox disease, formerly known as Monkey pox, has been ongoing since 2022. South Africa is amongst the countries currently experiencing the outbreak. Mpox is a viral infection which spreads between people and occasionally from the environment to people via objects and surfaces that have been touched by a person with Mpox. read more »
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Prevalence of disability on the decline in SA
In 2022, South Africa had a population of 62 million persons, with around 3,3 million individuals identified as living with disabilities. A recent report from Statistics South Africa, titled “Profiling Socio-economic Status and Living Arrangements of Persons with Disabilities in South Africa, 2011–2022,” revealed that disability prevalence varied across different measures. The findings, which are read more »