The Number Problem

The document shows there were 51,770,560 people in the country at midnight on October 9 last year, the date of the 2011 Census, compared to 44,819,778 counted a decade earlier.

Consequently, we are left with approximately 2,9 million people who paid close to 99% of all income tax.

{PS: The author hadn’t factored out state employees. This group is obviously not true taxpayers. Rough estimate for state employees I think is around 1.3 million(?) I would guess that once this is factored out there are probably a few hundred thousand people paying tax out of genuine value added income.}

Among children younger than 17 in SA, 3.37 million have lost one or both parents. That is really tragic.

It's worse than anyone will admit.