Fellow South Africans,
From 10 October until the end of this month, government will send people to your homes to count members of households, in order to help us plan better for the future.
Government people will count about 13 million households in our country.
This will enable us to know how many people there are in South Africa, where they stay, what they do, how many are employed and how many are struggling to get jobs.
They will check access to water, education, electricity, sanitation and other services.
This information will tell us as government how far we have come and how far we still need to travel to ensure a better quality of life for all. It will also help us to plan well in order to build a better life for all.
I urge all South Africans and all who reside in our country, to avail themselves to be counted. All of us must be counted.
The Government people doing the counting will carry official identification and you will be able to verify exactly who you are talking to.
We look forward to a successful Census and working with all of you, we will succeed.
Let us all be counted from the 10th to the 31st of October.
I thank you.
