Fast Facts 2017

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• Profi ling the provinces
• Provincial snippets
• Notes
• Fast Stats

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• We’re queer and we’re here!
• Alone with everyone
• Human targets
• Get up, stand up
• Out of Africa
• Putting on the Ritz
• Fast Stats

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• Nice work… if you can get it
• All about work
• Labour supply and demand
• Tally of the employed
• Out of a job
• Regional stats
• Fast Stats

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• Crime: Through the eyes of the beholder
• Seeing and believing
• Municipal crime
• Fast Stats

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• Wathint’ Abafazi, wathint’ Imbokodo
• Women in society
• Health and welfare
• Women at work
• A learning curve
• Public participation
• Crime and law enforcement
• Fast Stats

This edition – ‘South Africa losing out on foreign investment’ – follows up on the June Fast Facts, which looked at fixed investment in South Africa. In this issue, the IRR gives an overview of investment in South Africa by foreigners as well as of South Africans’ investments across the globe. Worth noting is that, while the value of foreign investment in South Africa used to exceed the value of South African investments offshore, the relationship between the two is now reversed, as investing in the country becomes less appealing. At the same time, the country is increasingly exposed to speculative portfolio inflows, which have a tendency to be unstable.

The Fast Stats pages, with financial and other statistics, are included.

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• Fixed investment on shaky ground
• All fixed investment 
• Fixed investment: Public and private 
• Sectoral fixed investment 
• FastSTATS

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• Non-communicable diseases barely at heart of policy 
• Cancer
• Heart disease and hypertension
• Diabetes
• Obesity, tabacco and treatment of chronic lifestyle diseases
• Mortality
• FastSTATS

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• South Africa's Quality of Life: A brief reading
• Gauging South Africa's quality of life 
• Education, employment and income 
• Access to services 
• Health and security 
• Quality of Life Index (QOLI) 
• FastSTATS

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• Soft infrastructure flaws underpin lukewarm global competitiveness 
• Economic activity 
• Institutional environment 
• Hard infrastructure
• Soft infrastructure 
• FastSTATS 

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• Squeezing blood from a stone 
• Rising tax to GDP
• Social protection and housing 
• Rising debt costs 
• A doubtful outlook 
• Burdened households
• An uncertain future 
• The tax take
• Fast Stats

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• Auditing racial transformation 
• Population breakdown 
• Education
• Economic participation
• Income and expenditure 
• Authority
• Conclusion
• Fast Stats