BY: NATASHA ODENDAAL –
he number of households living in informal dwellings remained stubbornly high with nearly 14% of South Africa’s 15-million households living in such lodgings.
The North West recorded the highest percentage at 22.1%, Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA’s) latest General Household Survey (GHS) showed.
The percentage of South African households living in formal dwellings increased from 73.7% to 77.7%, while households living in informal dwellings increased 0.4 percentage points to 13.6% between 2002 and 2013.
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