Gauteng Of the 7,3 million people in Gauteng, only 3% live in non-urban areas, as opposed to the massive 97% that live in urban areas. South Africa as a whole boasts a population of forty-and-a-half million people. Gauteng's total population ranks second in size to that of KwaZulu Natal, which, with 8,4 million people, is the province with the highest population in South Africa. The results of the latest census conducted nationwide in 1996, were released by President Nelson Mandela and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel in Pretoria today. The results represent the population of South Africa as on the night of 9 to 10 October, 1996. South Africa as a whole boasts a population of around 40,5 million people. This is a large number. If all people in South Africa took hands, they would circle the earth once and a bit. Gauteng’s African population is constitutes 70% of the total people in Gauteng. 23% of the province's population are White, making it the province with the highest percentage of White inhabitants. The rest of the population figures by groups are: 3,8% Coloured and 2,2% Indian/Asian. 3,8 million of the province's people are male and 3,6 million are female. This bucks the national figure, where women are in the majority, with about 1,5 million more women than men. 8% of Gauteng's people aged 20 years and above have a tertiary qualification. This is second only to that of the Western Cape, where around 10% of people have higher education qualifications. In Gauteng, only 9% of people aged 20 years and above have had no schooling at all. An approximate 11% have had some primary education whilst 24% have a matric. Gauteng’s 40 % for people with some secondary education is the highest among the provinces. The highest disability figure for Gauteng is 3% for people with sight disabilities. This is in keeping with the rest of the country, where visual disabilities are the most common. The rest of the disability situation is as follows: 0,8% (hearing), 1% (physical), 0,3% (mental) and 0,4% (more than one disability). At least 45% of people in Gauteng have telephones or cellular phones in their dwellings. This figure is the second highest after the Western Cape with 55%. Only 4% of the province's population have no access at all to a telephone. Those with no telephones or cellular phones in their dwellings, can access a neighbour’s telephone (3%), a public telephone nearby (41%), one at work (4,2%) or one at a location not nearby (2%). |