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Press Release: Four out of five households do not qualify for mortgages - 2nd February 2012.

Some 83% of the nearly 14 million households in the country do not earn enough to qualify for bank housing loans, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last week.

More than two thirds of all children between the ages of 0 and 4 do not attend Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.

Tuberculosis is the number one killer of Africans in South Africa, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg last week.

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Research & Policy Brief

Muriel Horrell: Apartheid’s Chronicler and Archivist

Early next year the Institute will publish the 2010/2011 edition of the South Africa Survey. The Survey's reputation was established by Muriel Horrell, who wrote and compiled it almost single-handedly for nearly 30 years. This tribute was written by Sue Krige.