African Statistical Newsletter 2008

Abstract

This issue of the Newsletter also has a lot of interesting information about statistical developments in Africa. It reports on: two octogenarian mathematics teachers in South Africa - against the backdrop that during the dark era in that country, the apartheid government had decreed that mathematics and sciences should not be taught to the black population; the “First Women” gracing the Centre - the first woman Head of an African Statistics Office and the first woman President of the International Statistical Institute (ISI); the meeting to discuss implementation of the African Charter on Statistics; the first ever conference of young statisticians held in Africa; the first regional dialogue on gender statistics; revision of the SNA93; progress in preparations for ISI Congress to be held in Durban, South Africa in August 2009.