• More than half of South Africans (55.5% / 30 Million people) live below the national poverty line (of R992 per month).
• People most effected — Black south Africans, the unemployed, the less educated, female headed households, large families and children. 

The bottom 60% of South Africans control 7% of the countries assets.

Roughly 93% of these house holds have access to electricity.

The “extreme” poverty line is R561 per person per month – this line refers to the amount of money that an individual will need to afford the minimum required daily energy intake. 

To feed a single person a nutritionally complete basket offood for the month costs between R527 (for small children) to R670 (for very active men). A child support grant is only R420 a month (not enough to feed a child a nutritionally complete meal), and an old age grant is R1,780 – not enough to cover the costs for a family.
South Africa has 28.99 million active mobile internet users (Statista, 2019). SouthAfrica has 54 percent internet penetration (7 percent growth from 2017) (We Are Social, 2018).