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Palesa Motsoari lost her job, but her stokvel's grocery deliveries kept her family fed for almost four months while she searched for new work.

Most people have no idea how much they should be spending on food. Siza Khula can tell you, and it uses real South African prices to do it.

Luyanda Dlamini borrowed money to buy data so she could write an assignment, after the University of South Africa stopped giving distance learning students their monthly data allowance.

Adapted from an original article by Charles Savage, first published on Currency News. Since the two-pot retirement system launched in September 2024, most South Africans...

Camilla Ndlovu did not inherit her farm. She went to the Land Bank first, researched farming, filed the paperwork, and found a farm to buy.

Nhlanhla Nkosi fries kotas at her Protea Glen tuck shop using gas, the one fuel that got more expensive this July while petrol, diesel and paraffin all dropped.

Sakhile Mhlongo, 55, spotted a gap at a Limpopo taxi rank that everyone else missed. Years later her four children all have jobs and she still does not work for anyone but herself.

Tonique McKenzie left her real estate job because she could not afford the transport to get there. Now she is unemployed, raising a five-year-old, and has R300 left at month end.

Nontlahla Matshini charges R100 for a basket of washing and R80 for a blanket. Combined with two child support grants and an SRD grant, it is just enough to keep a family of three alive in Cape Town.

The country's biggest retailer faces fresh scrutiny as the Human Rights Commission wraps up a week-long probe into why millions of South Africans still go to bed hungry.

Zodwa Nkabinde earned R850 last month collecting recyclable waste in Thembisa. The Johannesburg household food basket costs R5,713, nearly seven times what she made.

The fuel price cut motorists were expecting in August has shrunk sharply in a single day, after Donald Trump said the Iran ceasefire was over.