An old friend, Sekoale Malete, passed away on Thursday.
Statistics as a summative tapestry of what has happened and as instruments for prediction has never been so much in the face of society as is in 2020.
Lipolelo Thabane, the murdered wife of Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane, was born and bred in the same village as me, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
It is when times are tough that conjecture and false prophets emerge with opium to delude our minds of our material conditions.
25 years into democracy we have reduced ourselves to a people who are up for sale and divorced from consciousness that drove Madiba’s vision for SA.
At its best, development communication should be a sum total of focused planning, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
For five years now, statisticians, the bean counters of nations, have been the busy bees of the world writes Dr Pali Lehohla
The Statistician- General of South Africa, Risenga Maluleke, released the Citizen Satisfaction Survey for KwaZulu-Natal, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
The burden arising from medical conditions and its implications on the economy arise because of the gap between diagnostics and therapy.
Little did I expect that during BRICS 22OnSloane would be privileged as the venue that would host the BRICS First Ladies writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
That South Africa's economy has remained (and continues to be) comatose for almost eight years, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
. I will cast the statistical lens at what tourism means for the past, current and the future writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
In the cross-hairs of Africa's development challenges are an uneasy and shifty interplay of its regional policy position, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
Dr Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General of SA and Head of StatsSA writes about whether or not to undertake a census in the country.
A junk status in South Africa is a status which every South African should work hard to get out of writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
At the end of March, Pali Lehohla is reminded of the time 25 years ago, when the battle lines were drawn for the soul of statistics in South Africa.
No amount of quibbling and clinging to privilege can solve problems and deliver results, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
The stats show just how horrifying the status of education is in SA, writes Pali Lehohla.
Statistics is a conduit of trust, and only those who can be trusted should be its stewards and custodians, Dr Pali Lehohla tells the UNSC.
The numerical tapestry of our urban landscape is the focus of this column today, exploring Hillbrow in Johannesburg and Sunnyside in Tshwane.
Outgoing UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon granted the South African government the rights to host the very first UN World Data Forum.
Statistics have to be produced by those that, in the eyes and lived experience of the community of practice and use most importantly, can be trusted.
