APPENDIX
Table 2
Proportion of population estimated in urban areas
1904
1936
1960
1980
1996
%
%
%
%
%
African
10
17
32
33
43.3
Coloured
51
54
68
77
83.3
Indian
37
66
83
91
97.3
White
53
65
84
88
90.6
Total
23
31
47
47
53.7
SOURCES: Francis Wilson and Mamphela Ramphele, Uprooting Poverty: The
South African Challenge (New York, 1989), 26, for the years 1904, 1936, 1960,
and 1980. The 1996 entries are derived from Statistics South Africa, The People of
South Africa Population Census, 1996: Primary Tables (Pretoria, 1999), 38-39.
The 1990 total entry, from Wilson and Ramphele, namely 47, is blatantly wrong.
The 1996 census was probably more accurate than its predecessors, though not
without errors.
Table 3
Real growth and income levels
Real GDP
Real personal
Real GDP
per head
disposable income
Year
(billion rand)
(rand)
per head (rand)
1962
205.28
10,764
6,815
1970
324.47
13,889
8,014
1975
388.12
15,192
9,395
1980
451.98
15,743·
9,690
1985
483.44
15,167
9,354
1990
525.07
14,701
9,210
1995
548.10
13,884
8,861
1998
588.34
13,965
9,041
SOURCE: South African Reserve Bank, cited thus in South African Survey, 1999-
2000,404.
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