Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) today released mid-year population estimates which put South Africa’s population at just over 54,9 million as at July 2015. The population increased by 1,65% between 2014 and 2015, with Gauteng remaining the most populous province, with almost 13,2 million inhabitants, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with a population of almost 10,9 million.   read more »

Digging a little deeper into the latest consumer price data shows how you can make informed choices about your sweet tooth. If you love to have cake on a regular basis, it might be interesting to know that you are now paying almost 30% more for a cake than you did in June 2010. The   read more »

Description: A team of academics and researchers drawn from Stats SA, Oxford University, and the Human Science Research Council has developed an approach to the measurement of poverty in South Africa which takes into account issues relating to income and material deprivation, employment deprivation, health deprivation, education deprivation, and the quality of the environment in   read more »

Description: This publication consists of one national and nine provincial reports with detailed tables from both Census ’96 and Census 2001 giving number and percentage information for each of 23 person and household variables broken down by sex and population group. For each topic there is a comparative graph and a short narrative. Download instructions:   read more »

Salary bonuses and changing seasons shift municipal spending, according to data from Stats SA’s latest Quarterly financial statistics of municipalities report. Bonuses paid to municipal staff drove up employee-related costs at the end of 2014. Municipalities spent R19,3 billion on employees in the quarter ended December 2014, decreasing to R17,6 billion in the quarter ended   read more »

Eastern Cape 231 Aberdeen 223 Adelaide 221 Albany 201 Albert 222 Alexandria 202 Aliwal North 207 Barkly-East 224 Bathurst 225 Bedford 250 Bizana 251 Butterworth 274 Cala 212 Cathcart 268 Cofimvaba 229 Cradock 219 East London 208 Elliot 252 Elliotdale 253 Engcobo 254 Flagstaff 226 Fort Beaufort 232 Graaff-Reinet 237 Hankey 244 Hewu 206 Hofmeyer   read more »

Code Municipality Demarcation Board code Name Metros 71 Cape Town City of Cape Town 72 Durban Ethekwini 73 East Rand Ekurhuleni Metro 74 Johannesburg City of Johannesburg Metro 75 Port Elizabeth Nelson Mandela 76 Pretoria City of Tshwane Metro Cross-border municipalities 81 CBLC1 Ga-Segonyana 82 CBLC2 Kungwini 83 CBLC3 Greater Marble Hall 84 CBLC4 Greater   read more »

It is often said that an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. A good education is worth its weight in gold, but recent figures released by Stats SA indicate that South African households will have to make more room in their budgets to pay for rising tuition fees. Stats SA updates education inflation figures   read more »

PRESS STATEMENT APRIL 2015 Highlights The effects of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on the South African economy continued to linger in 2014. This, combined with factors such as constrained electricity supply and labour unrest, has negatively impacted on the performance of the economy. Slowing growth rates over the period 2010–2013 (averaging 2,7%), continued into   read more »

Municipal purchases and sales of water and electricity followed expected seasonal patterns in the quarter ended December 2014. Municipalities spent an additional 12,9% on water purchases, compared with the quarter ended September 2014. Municipal income generated from water sales increased by 20,0%. There were decreases in both purchases of electricity (-27,9%) and sales of electricity   read more »