Did you know?

Did you know?

The Department of Human Settlements has delivered 4,3 million houses and housing opportunities since 1994.

In 2010/11, the Department of Home Affairs was able to register 39% of all births within 30 days. This has improved to 67% in 2015/16.

The representation of persons with disabilities in the workplace decreased from 2% in 2014 to 1.7% in 2015.

In the first three quarters of the 2015/2016 financial year, Legal Aid South Africa took on 315 138 new criminal matters and 228 905 new civil matters and assisted 11 781 children via its Justice Centres and 64 satellite offices.

On average, toilet flushing uses up to 31% of the overall household consumption, therefore making this one of the highest consumers of water in the house.The Department of Water and Sanitation has introduced a new initiative called Drop-The-Block to reduce potable water consumption by one litre per flush.

StatsSA reported that the two leading causes of death among youth were ‘certain infectious and parasitic diseases’ (such as TB, intestinal infectious diseases, HIV, viral diseases) and ‘external causes of morbidity’ (such as car accidents, murder).

In a separate report, StatsSA said that 33% of people did not report sexual offence because they felt it was not serious enough.