Household registration for the country’s first digital Census began last week and will end on Friday.Census Gauteng Spokesperson Ben Bosch says, “We will conduct the Census from the 3rd to the 28th of February which will be the 4th population count post democracy. Our fieldwork will start on Census night. On this night, we will visit hotels, prisons, hospitals and the homeless to collect data.
In the 2011 Census, KwaZulu-Natal had the third highest official unemployment rate in the country at 33 percent.Experts say the South African population has been growing at a faster pace than the economy over the past five years.The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated these challenges, resulting in job losses and larger dependency on government grants.
This week South Africa embarks on yet another census to take stock of the population growth levels, which aid with planning and policymaking. Stats SA Statistician-General, Risenga Maluleke says, “The last 4 to 5 years our population has grown by about almost 3.5 million people and I am talking generally in the whole country whereas our economy has been fluctuating and actually having been hit the most by COVID-19, so the population has continued to grow, but our economy in real terms has gone back to where it was in 2017.”
“I must admit that population growth is not as sensitive to shocks, we are yet to see the impact of COVID-19, but the economy which we measure quarterly is sensitive to shocks even quarter to quarter, shocks can be internal or external shocks,” Maluleke adds.This entry was posted on 02 Feb 2022,06:18AM at 6:18 AM and is filed under
Don't forget to also count the 40 worshippers (and their families) that were shoot and bruised at church last year ...
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