South Africa's population policy, which is complementary to the country's national development plans, essentially adopts a holistic, multi-sectoral approach. It advocates that efforts to influence the population factors of fertility, mortality and migration are both a means to, and an outcome of, sustainable development. The policy primarily seeks to influence the country's population trends in such a way that these trends are consistent with the achievement of sustainable human development. Indeed the policy explicitly and implicitly responds to the majority of the Millennium Development Goals. While it is envisaged that the policy's implementation is the responsibility of government at all levels, the local government sphere through its Integrated Development Plans (IDPs), is best positioned to purposefully operationalise it. It is over ten years since South Africa's population policy was implemented and this ar