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Court case looming as wine industry challenges government’s ‘blanket’ booze ban The wine industry’s court challenge against government’s 14-day lockdown level 4 booze ban has been postponed. Vinpro, which is leading the case, said this was to allow the state to file answering affidavits. The case was due to be heard in the Western Cape high court on Friday. Vinpro, an organisation which represents about 2,600 wine and grape producers, has listed President Cyril Ramaphosa as the first respondent, traditional affairs and co-operative governance minister Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma as the s...

SA moms face high food prices and the nutritional cost that follows Report warns that the lack of healthy food has removed an important line of defence against Covid-19 30 June 2021 - 19:35 Struggling SA mothers say high food prices have hollowed out proper nutrition on the family plate.  This has removed an important line of defence against Covid-19, states the latest Household Affordability Index report released by the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group (PMBEJD) on Wednesday... This article is free to read if you register or sign in. If you have already registere...

2021-06-02 16:31:06 GMT2021-06-03 00:31:06(Beijing Time) Xinhua English JOHANNESBURG, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Rising food prices were deepening poverty and financial crisis in South Africa, according to the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group. Mervyn Abrahams, program coordinator at the group, said the escalating food prices were forcing low-income families to cut back on nutritional foods. "Households don't have enough money to buy essential food and COVID-19 has worsened the crisis," Abrahams told Xinhua on Wednesday. The Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group...

Strained budgets of low income household face more pressure in the face of a paraffin price increase this month.

Elevated prices for the staple food maize are putting pressure on cash-strapped South African consumers still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and fanning food price inflation.