About one in five people living in Johannesburg and Cape Town live in informal housing, according to the 2021 State of South African Cities report. | Fin24
The report highlights the important role played by the informal sector in creating employment.The South African Cities Network has released its latest State of South African Cities report.
About one in five people in some of the country's biggest cities – including Johannesburg and Cape Town – live in informal housing, according to the 2021 State of South African Cities report released by the South African Cities Network .It also found that in Cape Town and Johannesburg, nearly half of residents lived on less than R1 300 a month in 2016. In terms of food security, Cape Town came off worst, with about one in four residents having adequate access to food in 2018.
Of the nine municipalities under the microscope, Nelson Mandela Bay had the smallest percentage of people in informal housing - 6.1% of its 1.2 million residents.In Msunduzi, which includes Pietermaritzburg, around a fifth of residents live in informal housing at 20.9%. In the City of Ekurhuleni in Gauteng, 19.9% of its 3.8 million residents lived in informal settlements by 2018; in Cape Town, Western Cape, this applied to 19.3% of its 4.5 million residents.
"It seems these were the two cities which focused on local economic development, including city-facilitated employment programmes," she said."It is also worth mentioning that it seems these two cities had the most stability in terms of politics, which in turn helps investor confidence." Residents of Cape Town seem to live the longest - on 65.6 years in 2020. In Johannesburg, Tswhane and Ekurhuleni your life expectancy is 63.7 years, while it is 59.6 years in Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City. Ethekwini and Msunduzi come in at 57.1%, while the life expectancy in Mangaung is the lowest at 54.5%.
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