{"id":1558,"date":"2013-09-13T14:16:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2013-09-16T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:18:56","slug":"mbalo-brief-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Mbalo Brief &#8211; September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa has recently been plagued by a series of strikes. As collective\u00a0wage negotiations got underway, employers and employees came to a\u00a0deadlock. Mining, car manufacturing and City Power workers were among\u00a0some of the workers who downed their tools during this time. Although many\u00a0would agree that this year\u2019s \u2018strike season\u2019, as some call it, was not as\u00a0violent as the one witnessed in 2012, it still reduces confidence of foreign\u00a0investors to invest in South Africa and also impacts our country\u2019s economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On a lighter note, spring is finally here! Although this year\u2019s winter wasn\u2019t as\u00a0cold as many anticipated, the change in seasons is always a pleasant one:\u00a0from blooming flowers, longer days, and swimming to National Braai Day or\u00a0Heritage Day as it is formally known. On Heritage Day, 24 September, South\u00a0Africans celebrate their diverse cultural heritage that makes up the rainbow\u00a0nation. What many don\u2019t know, however, is that it was initially known as King\u00a0Shaka Day, in commemoration of the former Zulu king, Shaka. When the\u00a0Public Holiday\u2019s Bill was presented to the parliament of South Africa, it did\u00a0not include King Shaka Day as a holiday. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)\u00a0refused to sign the bill unless it was included as a holiday. However,\u00a0Parliament and the IFP reached a comprise and agreed to include it in the\u00a0bill as Heritage Day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this issue of Mbalo Brief, our educational article is based on Free State\u2019s\u00a0Census 2011 results. We look at the province\u2019s population growth in 2011 in\u00a0comparison to 1996 and 2001, the unemployment rate, educational level,\u00a0access to housing and basic services, among others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Solutions to last month\u2019s puzzle and a new puzzle to test your general\u00a0knowledge are included on page iv. You can also expect to be informed of\u00a0the performance of various industries in our economy, including land\u00a0transport, tourist accommodation, manufacturing, and mining, among others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Articles published in this issue are based on results of industry surveys\u00a0conducted for the months ranging from May to July 2013 which were\u00a0released in July and August 2013. For full details on any of the surveys, visit\u00a0our website at www.statssa.gov.za<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Enjoy the read.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Download:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mbalo-Brief-September-2013-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mbalo Brief &#8211; September 2013<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recently been plagued by a series of strikes. As collective\u00a0wage negotiations got underway, employers and employees came to a\u00a0deadlock. Mining, car manufacturing and City Power workers were among\u00a0some of the workers who downed their tools during this time. Although many\u00a0would agree that this year\u2019s \u2018strike season\u2019, as some call it, was not&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1558\" 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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbalo-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}