The numbers game — it’s time to stand up and be counted
Cows, lightning and high walls… statistician-general Risenga Maluleke is ready for just about anything as the national census kicks off this week, writes Claire Keeton
30 January 2022 - 00:00
Madiba magic gilded the first census of a democratic SA in 1996, as the “Rainbow Nation” opened its doors to thousands of fieldworkers collecting information about the lives of its people.
A quarter of a century on, the magic dust and trust have vanished and the spectre of the coronavirus looms over the 2022 count, which kicks off on Wednesday night...
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