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Most of us know we should have a budget. Few of us have one. Here is the easiest way to make one, in under five minutes, on your phone.

Petrol prices are on track to drop by more than R2 a litre in July after the US and Iran ended their war on Sunday. Whether taxi fares follow is another question.

Violet Sibeko has worked at Pick n Pay for years, surviving one store closure already, as retrenchment talks threatening 22,000 workers are paused while negotiations continue.

A nanny from Parkhurst started a business baking rusks with 350 rands because her salary could not cover basic living expenses and support her children.

South African motorists will get smaller fuel price cuts on 1 July because the government is ending tax relief and bringing back full pump taxes.

Funeral insurer AVBOB says policyholders received full benefits during a system crash but families say they got no help and had to take out loans.

Kgabo Molwele goes to work every day as a line manager, takes the 5:30am train in the dark to save money, collects waste food for her garden and is on depression medication.

Researchers tested liver, tripe, tongue and trotters from cattle that recovered from foot-and-mouth disease and found no trace of the virus, suggesting costly rules forcing abattoirs to throw those cuts away may be unnecessary.

A Johannesburg salon manager lost five staff members in weeks and turned away 17 dreadlock clients in one weekend as Ghanaian nationals leave South Africa ahead of a 30 June deadline.

Tshepo Zitha was 19, out of school and failing on his first day of selling kotas when two Somali shopkeepers in Limpopo changed the direction of his life.

The Child Support Grant went up R20 in April. But low-income families pay R350 in VAT on their food every month. That is seventeen times more.

Siza Khula is now available as a free app on the Google Play Store making it even easier for South Africans to get practical money help.