The Community Survey of 2007 by Statistics South Africa portrays Msunduzi and its surrounding hinterland as modestly populated with the lowest average annual growth rate between 2001-2007 of the top eight cities in South Africa. With a population of fewer than one million and a growth rate of less than one percent - compared with over three percent for Ethekweni, Ekurhuleni, Cape Town and Johannesburg - the immediate consideration is that it is of less importance than the other cities with apparently more dire development imperatives. However, the findings of the Urban Food Security Baseline Survey (August 2008) which sampled 556 households and 2871 individuals in vulnerable communities within Msunduzi, shows that the city’s poor face some of the most pressing poverty and food security challenges in SADC.
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