Understand how the VAT increase affects your grocery shopping and discover which essential items remain exempt.

Unless the prices of the core foods in the household food basket decrease or wages increase, households will struggle again in 2025.

Civil society calls for an alternative to VAT hike to avoid hunger for the impoverished. Maverick Citizen has been tracking the prices of 14 basic food items that a consumer can buy with R370, the ...

The government plans to introduce agrihubs and food basket sites as part of innovations to drive forward its agriculture sector, under a new strategy, The New Times understands.The fifth edition of ...

Many people buy offal to eat because they cannot afford better cuts of meat. Budget 2025 just emphasises the inequality in ...

structural solutions that lower the cost of a healthy food basket. That would mean no child would have to search for sustenance in refuse bins. South Africa has the highest number of people who ...

While the food basket price showed a decrease of R120.48 ... the cost of these critical foods still, for most South African households, relative to household income, are unaffordable.

If you feel like your grocery bill keeps climbing, you’re not alone. In a recent article by Business Tech, Malcolm Libera ...

A breakdown by Statistics South Africa showed housing and utilities, food and non-alcoholic drinks ... and services in its consumer inflation basket and updated the weights to reflect changes ...