Source: National Treasury
Title: Manuel: Statement on Census 2001 results, NA
STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF FINANCE, TREVOR MANUEL, ON THE 2001 CENSUS RESULTS, National Assembly, 11 September 2003
South Africa has made remarkable progress in the few years of our democracy. The programmes that we have put in place are undoubtedly successful. Madam Speaker, I am glad to announce to this House today that Census 2001 has been a success and that in their report to me, the Statistics Council, a body that has statutory responsibility for oversight of the statistics system, has asked me to accept the results and promote their utilization. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to say to this House: Here are the results, please use them.
You will remember about two years ago when I addressed this House, I announced that the enumerators would soon be making their way across the country, across the rolling hills of KwaZulu-Natal, up the highlands of the Eastern Cape, through the flatlands of the Northern Cape and through the security-tight suburbs of Sandton to count us in, then this House agreed that we needed a census. Today I am here to bring you the results - The population of the Republic stood at 44.8 million people in 2001 compared to 40.5 million people in 1996. Our population has grown by 10% in that five-year period, and this gives us an average growth rate of 2% per annum.
We can sketch with passion the census undertaking in our new democracy. Faced with the urgency to end minority rule that had dominated our country for 350 years, we conducted elections in 1994. Census
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