Gauteng: a province of migrants
Gauteng is a province of migrants and has been the focus of internal and cross border migration within and to South Africa for over a century (Peberdy, 1998, 2009; Crush et al. 1991). It is the province with the highest proportion of migrants in its population (44%) (StatsSA, 2012a: 39). In Census 2011 only 6,678,316 of the 12,272,263 residents counted in the province had been born in Gauteng (StatsSA, 2012).1 It is also the province which experienced the highest rate of growth in population between 2001 and 2011 (30%) of which 52% was a result of in-migration (StatsSA, 2013: 12).
This data brief provides an overview of internal migrants (people who have come to Gauteng from other provinces in South Africa) and cross border migrants (people from other countries) in Gauteng. It encompasses demographics, housing, education, employment and income. It concludes with a brief examination of the attitudes of respondents in the Gauteng City-Region Observatory Quality of Life Survey of 2011 to cross border migrants and migration policy
Date of publication:
June 2013
Transformation of higher education in the GCR
The central focus of this Data Brief is on the developmental potential of HEIs in the GCR to collaborate effectively with each other and other stakeholders.
Date of publication:
March 2013
Linked to project(s):
Transformation in higher education (2014)
Prices & earnings in the GCR in comparison to major world cities
This Data Brief draws on data published by UBS in September 2012 for 72 cities in different parts of the world. UBS has been collecting city data on the prevailing earnings (wages) for different professions as well as prices for major categories of goods and services since 1970.
Date of publication:
January 2013
