Having completed the walk about, the Acting CEO, Ms Monale presented the Mankweng Profile to the Committee. She informed the Committee that Limpopo Province had an estimated population of 5, 8 million, with an average growth rate of 3, 4% per year since 1996. The province had the lowest urbanised population in South Africa of 11% as opposed to a non-urban population of 89%. She told the Committee that the public sector was the highest provider of employment opportunities in the 92% rural province, with the unemployment rate of approximately 46% and an estimated 40% of adults being functionally illiterate.