{"id":44899,"date":"2013-08-28T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44899"},"modified":"2013-08-28T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T11:16:26","slug":"south-africans-love-tv-stats-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/44899\/south-africans-love-tv-stats-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans love TV: Stats SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching television is one of the top leisure activities South Africans spent their time on, Statistics SA said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Men across all ages spent more time in front of the TV than women.<\/p>\n<p>Boys between the ages of 10 and 17 spent the most time in front of the television compared with all the other age groups, and females.<\/p>\n<p>Other activities of leisure included socialising and cultural activities.<\/p>\n<p>The report was presented in Pretoria by Kefiloe Masiteng, the deputy director general of population and social statistics.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA business and innovation status\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/35521\/sa-business-and-innovation-status\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA business and innovation status<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government failing ICT in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/35542\/government-failing-ict-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government failing ICT in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA ICT skills shock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/35560\/shocking-sa-ict-skills-ranking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA ICT skills shock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA ranked on VC funding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/35524\/sa-ranked-on-vc-availability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA ranked on VC funding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching television is one of the top leisure activities South Africans spent their time on, Statistics SA said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1809,2166],"class_list":["post-44899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-stats-sa","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44899","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44900,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44899\/revisions\/44900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}