50 day countdown to Census 2011 begins

By Khanyisa Tabata
22 August 2011

President Jacob Zuma today launched the 50-day countdown to Census 2011.

It has been 10-years since the last census was conducted, back when the country’s population sat at 44-point-eight-million people.

Addressing journalists at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, Zuma urged everyone in South Africa to cooperate with census officials when they begin the process on the 10th of October.

Meanwhile, special arrangements have been made to ensure that the Springboks will be able to take part in the census.

The team will be in New Zealand at the time, playing in the upcoming Rugby World Cup.

Minister in the Presidency, Trevor Manuel, says Statistics South Africa will make contact with the team as everyone needs to be counted…