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.
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South Africa is the only country in the world whose murder rate exceeds its road accident fatality rate, according to the South Africa Survey, released by the South African Institute of Race Relations last month.
Some 83% of the nearly 14 million households in the country do not earn enough to qualify for bank housing loans, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last week.
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.
Tuberculosis is the number one killer of Africans in South Africa, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg last week.
South Africa is a net a food exporter, selling abroad 30% more agricultural goods than it imported in 2010, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
The proportion of adults with the lowest living standards has decreased by 77% over the last ten years according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last week.
The number of births for every death in 2011 was less than half of what it was in 1985, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations in its latest South Africa Survey, published last week in Johannesburg.
Local councils run by coalitions have almost doubled in number in the last two years, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Railway accidents accounted for more than five times as many deaths as mining accidents over a two-year period, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg last week.
National departments bucked the trend and experienced an alarming increase in the proportion that received qualified audits, while municipal and provincial departments showed a decrease, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
The number of hectares transferred through the land restitution programme could have been doubled if some beneficiaries had not received financial compensation instead, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg this week.