{"id":7244,"date":"2016-05-11T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=7244"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:19:50","slug":"sg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=7244","title":{"rendered":"sg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: darkred; font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 12;\"><b>Continue reading<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"background: url('https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/themes\/umkhanyakude\/img\/SchoolKids_3.jpg'); background-size: 100% 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"center\">\n<td valign=\"center\" width=\"25%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/themes\/umkhanyakude\/img\/WelcomSG.png\" width=\"207\" height=\"161\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"center\" width=\"75%\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>Dr. Pali Lehohla<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Statistician-General<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: darkred; font-size: 12;\">It is with great pleasure that Statistics South Africa launches the website of the ISIbalo Capacity Building Programme. While strengthening statistics and statistical capacity dates back far in Africa, a new turning point presented itself in 2008 when South Africa questioned the value of hosting the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in relation to the African statistical development agenda. Since then, we have left no stone unturned in bringing to the forefront the work of Africa to build its own capacity, to define its own statistical development and to participate as equal partners on global platforms than enhance statistics for development. Our focus on Africa\u2019s young statisticians is compelled by the need to meet the demands of our respective country national development plans and Agenda 2063 that will see our youth remain as custodians of a future Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=6456\">Go back<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continue reading Dr. Pali Lehohla Statistician-General It is with great pleasure that Statistics South Africa launches the website of the ISIbalo Capacity Building Programme. While strengthening statistics and statistical capacity dates back far in Africa, a new turning point presented itself in 2008 when South Africa questioned the value of hosting the 57th Session of&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=7244\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"isibaloProgrammes.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7244\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}