Fast Facts 2013

Contents:

• Local government
  Despite some success in service delivery, discontent with local government is increasing and citizens are no longer content to wait patiently for the promised improvements to their lives.
• Local government
  This edition of Fast Facts contains (on pages 4–17) a statistical report on the eight metropolitan and 44 district municipalities in South Africa. Municipalities are compared in the following areas: demographics, education, employment, income, assets, household access to services, and finance.
• Local government
  Fifty-five indicators for 52 municipalities.
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• Provinces
  The big three that rule the roost.
• Provinces
  South Africa in nine different shades.
• Provincial profiles
  Demographic, economic, and social statistical indicators for the nine provinces.
• Provincial profiles
  Provinces and tax.
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• The economy
  Fire fighting — South Africa’s economy growing at half the necessary rate.
• The economy
  Running out of runway.
• Economic profile
  Data tracking the long-term economic trends of the South African economy.
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• Economic forecasts
  Six years into the future.

Contents:

• Racial transformation
  Education, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: the three Es of real empowerment.
• Racial transformation
  BEE not the be all and end all of empowerment.
• Racial transformation
  Data on life expectancy, the labour market, income, and more.
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• Underclass
  Stuck in the shadows of society.
• Underclass
  The unfortunate underbelly of the country.
• Underclass
  Data on unemployment, poverty, education, social grants, services, and more.
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Contents:

• National Development Plan
  Best laid schemes.
• National Development Plan
  Neither fi sh nor fowl: John Kane-Berman’s analysis of the National Development Plan (NDP).
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• Social services
  Social grants up but jobs down.
• Social services
  Sixty percent of the budget and counting...
• Social services
  Social protection is a right, but South Africa also needs a “right to work”.
• Social services
  How the money is spent and who benefits.
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• Business
  Hobbling entrepreneurship and stifling the NDP.
• Black Economic Empowerment
  Affirmative action and BEE should be scrapped in favour of effective steps to help the poor.
• Black Economic Empowerment
  Key socio-economic factors contributing to racial inequality.
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Contents:

• Property
  The Government is using its own failures on land reform to justify a reworked Expropriation Bill.
• Government
  Eighteen years at a glance: The changing state of the nation since 1994. More than 80 indicators help you to assess the country’s - and the Government’s - performance.
• Budget 2013
  Our annual budget analysis contains tables showing long and very long-term trends.
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Contents:

• HIV/AIDS
  Prevention the key to long-term success.
• HIV/AIDS
  South Africa still scoring ‘B’ on its HIV/AIDS test.
• HIV/AIDS
  Statistical tables showing the latest data and historical trends on HIV prevalence, infections, prevention plans, treatment, deaths, and international comparisons.
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• Education
  Incremental improvements in education do little to hide the true sorry state of affairs.
• Education
  Flattering to deceive.
• Education
  National senior certifi cate (NSC) results, 2008-2012.
• Education
  The broader picture.
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• Provinces
  The winners and losers of internal migration
• Provinces
  The pieces of the provincial puzzle
• Provincial profiles
  Over 125 demographic, economic and social statistical indicators for the nine provinces.
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