Table 5.

Proportions (%) of miners^a in employment by 5-year period and province or country of origin, 1973–2012

	1973–1977	1978–1982	1983–1987	1988–1992	1993–1997	1998–2002	2003–2007	2008–2012
Total	173,260	292,772	840,736	873,531	783,842	500,252	524,646	569,813
Province of South Africa
Eastern Cape	26.07	30.86	29.36	23.54	22.44	18.5	19.83	20.2
Northwest	5.52	7.22	10.08	10.41	9.63	9.48	15.29	19.62
Gauteng	4.44	5.09	5.27	9.69	13.29	13.57	13.62	13.73
Limpopo	2.38	3.17	4.12	5.25	4.53	3.1	4.47	6.07
Free State	4.45	5.29	8.12	8.56	8.78	7.81	8.35	8.53
KZN	2.99	4.97	7.97	8.69	7.41	4.49	3.8	3.81
Mpumalanga	0.34	0.52	0.82	1.6	1.24	1.01	2	2.52
Western Cape	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.05	0.09
Northern Cape	0.12	0.16	0.26	0.24	0.21	0.25	0.55	0.9
Other country
Lesotho	26.89	21.76	15.17	15.15	15.65	18.71	14.35	11.13
Mozambique	16.57	11.37	9.34	9.14	12.19	17.81	14.22	10.82
Swaziland	2.42	2.52	2.78	2.78	2.6	3.01	2.22	1.65
Botswana	5.09	4.33	3.09	2.55	2	2.23	1.24	0.84
Malawi	2.54	2.51	3.53	2.39	0.01	0.01	0	0

^aAn individual miner cannot be counted more than once in a given period, but may be counted in more than one period