{"id":114762,"date":"2016-02-29T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=114762"},"modified":"2016-02-29T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T15:21:56","slug":"south-africas-most-serious-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/114762\/south-africas-most-serious-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s most serious problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) reveals the opinions of South Africans when it comes to the problems that have not yet been resolved since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, IRR commissioned a national opinion survey of public attitudes to race, empowerment, and other policy issues entitled <em>Race: What South Africans really think<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The survey canvassed the views of a balanced sample of 2,245 people from all nine provinces.<\/p>\n<p>It covered both rural and urban areas and all socio-economic strata. Of the respondents, 78.3% were black, 9% were coloured, 2.8% were Indian, and 9.9% were white.<\/p>\n<p>The poll asked South Africans to identify what they themselves saw as the two most serious problems not yet resolved since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The top two issues identified were unemployment and crime. In total, 46.5% of South Africans saw unemployment as the most pressing problem, while 28.8% cited crime.<\/p>\n<p>The table below lists only those issues cited by at least 5% of respondents. Racism was cited by just 4.4% of respondents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"40%\">Most serious unresolved problems<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"12%\">Total<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"12%\">Black<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"12%\">Coloured<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"12%\">Asian<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"12%\">White<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Unemployment<\/td>\n<td>55.9%<\/td>\n<td>58.6%<\/td>\n<td>57.1%<\/td>\n<td>43.7%<\/td>\n<td>37.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crime<\/td>\n<td>28.8%<\/td>\n<td>26.0%<\/td>\n<td>33.4%<\/td>\n<td>51.7%<\/td>\n<td>39.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Housing<\/td>\n<td>19.7%<\/td>\n<td>20.8%<\/td>\n<td>21.0%<\/td>\n<td>11.2%<\/td>\n<td>12.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Service delivery poor or slow<\/td>\n<td>14.7%<\/td>\n<td>16.2%<\/td>\n<td>11.2%<\/td>\n<td>10.7%<\/td>\n<td>7.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>State corruption\/incompetence\/nepotism<\/td>\n<td>14.0%<\/td>\n<td>11.4%<\/td>\n<td>16.9%<\/td>\n<td>12.1%<\/td>\n<td>32.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Education\/teachers\/fees\/overcrowding<\/td>\n<td>10.1%<\/td>\n<td>9.8%<\/td>\n<td>10.2%<\/td>\n<td>13.3%<\/td>\n<td>11.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Water supply<\/td>\n<td>8.1%<\/td>\n<td>10.0%<\/td>\n<td>1.3%<\/td>\n<td>3.7%<\/td>\n<td>0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Roads<\/td>\n<td>5.0%<\/td>\n<td>5.9%<\/td>\n<td>0.9%<\/td>\n<td>1.9%<\/td>\n<td>2.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The responses were not prompted and that respondents were free to list any issue that was important to them.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/114754\/what-south-africans-really-think-about-racism-and-affirmative-action\/\">What South Africans really think about racism and affirmative action<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/113992\/why-south-africans-with-money-are-leaving-the-country\/\">Why South Africans with money are leaving the country<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/114008\/how-government-is-destroying-wealth-creation-in-south-africa\/\">How government is destroying wealth creation in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) reveals the opinions of South Africans when it comes to the problems that have not yet been resolved since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":107303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,7203],"class_list":["post-114762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-institute-of-race-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114810,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114762\/revisions\/114810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}