Press Release: Mobile phones have replaced telephones in homes as main mode of communication
Some 89% of South African homes have access to mobile phones compared to only 14% that have access to landline telephones.
Press Release: Internet used mostly for data searching and for recreation
The majority of adult South Africans use the Internet to search for information while the number of those using it for chatting has grown the fastest.
Press Release: Complaint of racism lodged against the national director of public prosecutions - 6th September 2011.
The South African Institute of Race Relations has sent a complaint to the Human Rights Commission about comments made in the Sunday Times by the national director of public prosecutions, Advocate Menzi Simelane.
Press Release: Construction of a welfare state in progress - 31 January 2011.
The number of social-grant beneficiaries has increased by more than 300% in the past nine years, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Number of public schools in decline - 30th August 2012.
The number of public schools in the country decreased by 9% between 2000 and 2011, from 26 789 to 24 365, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Decline in under-five mortality too slow - 2nd October 2012.
South Africa’s under-five mortality rate has fallen relatively slowly in the past two decades compared to much of the rest of the world, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations. Globally, child mortality has been declining due to advances in healthcare and general living conditions.
Press Release: South Africa's democracy is slipping - 6th February 2012.
South Africa’s performance in key areas of democracy is slipping, according to the latest South Africa Survey, recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last month.
Press Release: Africa’s adult mortality: SA in bottom five of thirty-five
The probability of a 15-year-old dying before the age of 60 is higher in South Africa than in over 30 other African countries, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) last week
Press Release: Extended households record short-term leap
Extended household numbers rose sharply by almost a million in just two years and were the only type of household to experience growth, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) last week.
Dependency on employed down but still high among Africans - 14 January 2013.
Every worker in South Africa supports themselves and on average three additional non-working people, according to the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg next week.
Press Release: Deterring lawyers from litigation against the State - 3rd August 2012.
'If the Legal Practice Bill becomes law, the dependants of Andries Tatane and other victims of unjustified police shootings may find it more difficult to secure lawyers willing to take on their cases. So too may motorists offended by irrational and allegedly corrupt e-tolling, or accused people needing due process in the criminal courts.'
Press Release: Disappearing domestic workers - 31st January 2013.
The number of domestic workers in South Africa has declined over the past ten years according to data published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in its annual South Africa Survey this month. The number of domestic workers declined from 1 215 000 in 2003 to 1 153 000 in 2012, or by 5%.
Press Release: Less than a third of children attend Early Childhood Development centres - 2nd February 2012.
More than two thirds of all children between the ages of 0 and 4 do not attend Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Pupils also seek greener pastures
A combined total of 153 392 school-aged children between 6 and 18 left the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Limpopo, and the North West between 2001 and 2007, but only 90 998 moved into those provinces.
Press Release: Single-medium schools losing hold on African languages
Public single-medium African language schools have declined since 2008, from 7.2% of all single-medium schools to 4.6% in 2012.
Press Release: Education, not race, will determine employment equity progress in South Africa - 19th September 2012.
Educational achievement is a more important indicator than race in determining whether someone is likely to be employed in a professional position, according to data from the South African Institute of Race Relations. This challenges the view that employers in South Africa are resisting racial transformation.
Press Release: Electricity: wired up but switched off - 5th March 2013.
Despite the fact that 84% of South African homes have access to electricity, over a quarter of households do not use it for cooking and over half do not use it for heating, according to the latest South Africa Survey published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: The New Expropriation Bill is Better – But Still Bad - 27th March 2013.
The Expropriation Bill is back. It is better than its 2008 predecessor in one key way, for it allows the courts to decide the compensation payable for expropriated property. This is a major advance. In many other ways, however, the Bill remains as bad as before.
Press Release: Number of farmworkers plummets - 26 January 2011.
The number of people employed on commercial farms has dropped by 27.1%, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg this week.
Press Release: Fewer than two children per woman in future - 16th January 2012.
The fertility rate will drop below two births per woman by 2040, according to the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg next week.
