All the Figures of SONA2016, from Life Expectancy to Land Claims

A lot of numbers were mentioned by President Jacob Zuma during the State of the Nation Address on Thursday. The government has released a list of all the numbers extracted from the speech.

These range from what the government will spend to promote domestic tourism (R10 million) to the growth rate set to be achieved by 2019 (5 percent) to government’s investment in Eskom (R83 billion) to the number of new land claims lodged by December 2015 (120,000).

Here is a breakdown of the figures:

Economy

• R100 million – to be invested a year by South African Tourism to promote domestic tourism.
• 10th – South Africa’s ranking in the World Economic Forum competitiveness report.
• US$50 billion – investments announced by China.
• US$10 billion – investment from China to South Africa for infrastructure, industrialisation and skills development.
• 5% – the annual growth target set in the National Development Plan to be achieved by 2019.
• R25 billion – investments attracted by incentives for the automotive sector over the last five years.

Energy

• R83 billion – government’s investment in Eskom.
• R194 billion – an investment attracted by the Renewable Independent Power Producer Programme.
• 9,600 – megawatts of energy to be introduced in the next decade.

Agriculture and land reform

• 5 – the number of Agri-parks being constructed.
• 27 – the number of proposals received from commercial farmers.
• 4 – the number of proposals received from commercial farmers that are being implemented in the Eastern Cape and the Free State.
• 12,000 – the maximum hectares to be allowed for land ownership.
• 120,000 – the number of new land claims lodged by December 2015.

Water and sanitation

• 30 million – cubic meters of water to be provided per year by the Mokolo and Crocodile Water Augmentation project in Lephalale, Limpopo.
• 13 – the raised metres of the Clan William Dam wall in the Eastern Cape.
• 15 000 – number of young people being trained by the Department of Water and Sanitation to curb water wastage.

Oceans economy

• R7 billion – money committed in new port facilities by the Transnet National Ports Authority.
• 3,000 – kilometres of coastline surrounding South Africa.
• R660 million – investment brought by a fuel storage facility in Cape Town.
• R350,000 – investment being committed in the aquaculture sector.
• 9 – aquaculture farms already in production in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and Northern Cape.

Broadband roll-out

• 5,000 – government facilities in eight district municipalities to benefit from broadband roll-out.
• R740 million – funding for a broadband roll-out allocated over a three-year period to connect more than 5 000 government facilities in eight district municipalities.

Health

• 62 – life expectancy for both male and female South Africans, which is an increase of eight and half years since 2015.
• 3.2 million – HIV-positive people who benefitted from a massive roll-out of HIV testing and treatment in 2009.

Safety and security

• 57 – the number of police officers murdered to date during the 2015/16 financial year.

Employment

• 2 000 – number of European Union companies operating in South Africa.
• 350 000 – number of jobs created by the European Union.

Source www.gov.za.