The General Household Survey, 2021, released by Statistics South Africa, indicates that 18,8% of children lived with neither their biological parents while 33,8% lived with both parents, and 43,4% lived with their mothers. Approximately 11,5% of children were orphaned, having lost one or both parent.
COVID related locked down saw, the percentage of children that attended grade R, preschool, nursery school, crèche, and edu-care centres decreasing from 36,8% in 2019 to 28,5% in 2021.
The percentage of individuals aged 20 years and older who did not have any education decreased from 11,4% in 2002 to 3,2% in 2021. This is while those with at least a grade 12 qualification increased from 30,5% to 50,5% over the same period.
It is a slight improvement from 2002 to 2021.
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