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A local group monitoring food security says soaring prices have forced many lower-income households in KZN into survival mode.

The DG Murray Trust has identified 10 opportunities for change that are directed at breaking the intergenerational poverty and inequality deeply rooted in our c

As some experts predicted, food basket prices decreased from January to February 2024, but our food basket costs almost R80 more than the R350 SRD grant.

But does not significantly impact minimum-wage workers or those dependent on state grants.

Did the president make promises in his State of the Nation Adress that the minister of finance was unable to fund in his Budget 2024?

While lower food basket prices are good news for low-income consumers, the decreases are not enough to help them make ends meet.

Old age grant beneficiaries are mostly black and female and one in three lives in KwaZulu-Natal and more than half live in a rural area.

As Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana prepares to deliver his budget speech on 21 February, economists anticipate a 0.5% VAT increase.

The National Minimum Wage falls short of the minimum amount needed to afford an average Household Food Basket.

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