As the Chairperson of the Statistics Council, Prof. David Everatt, and the Statistician-General, Mr. Risenga Maluleke, we note issues raised by various stakeholders on some difficulties experienced during the commencement of Census 2022. While there are a host of technical, COVID-19 related and other factors that impacted the roll-out of the census in the midst of a pandemic and economic downturn, we take full responsibility for Census 2022 from what we can control – enumeration, systems, ...