SoNA in numbers

 

SoNA 2018

100th Anniversary

Celebrating the birth of former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

Population

 

57 million – South Africa’s diverse population.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employment

• 3.2 million – work opportunities created by public employment programmes.
• 1 million – public servants employed by the State.
• 6 million – working South Africans whose earnings are expected to increase.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social development

• 3.5 million –  indigent households being supported by government’s free basic services programme.
• 17 million – social grants being paid each month, benefiting nearly a third of the population.
• 1 million – children in early childhood development facilities.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education

• 60.6 percent matric pass rate in 2009.
• 75.1 percent – matric pass rate in 2017.
• 1 million – students enrolled in higher education in 2018.
• 500 000 – students enrolled in higher education in 1994.
• 39 500 – bursaries to be awarded by the Funza Lushaka Bursary Programme for Initial Teacher Education over the next three years.
• 1 million – internships to be created in the next three years.
• R350 000 – the gross combined annual income of households of first-year students benefiting from free higher education in 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Economy and investment

• R57 billion – amount spent on locally produced goods.
• 30 percent – value of public procurement to be set aside for small, medium and micro enterprises, cooperatives, and township and rural enterprises.
• R1.5 billion – the value of the Small Business Fund established through the CEOs Initiative.
• 26 – countries whose markets will be combined by the free-trade area.
• 625 million – population of 26 countries whose markets will be combined by the free-trade area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tourism

700 000 – direct jobs being sustained by tourism

Infrastructure development

187 – schools in rural and underprivileged urban areas across the country completed under the Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative programme.

Health

2 million – additional people to be initiated on antiretroviral treatment by December 2020.