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Download Siza Khula from the Play Store for free money help
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.
Miss one payment on your FoneYam phone and it goes dark
FoneYam has 2.4 million active rentals across PEP, Ackermans and Dunns stores, but if you miss a payment your phone locks until you pay up.
Chicken tray shrinks from five pieces to four and a family of five feels it immediately
A five-piece chicken tray at Spar now comes with four pieces for the same price, meaning families need to spend R177 more a month to get what they used to.
Cape Town family living in the dark they cannot report
A Cape Town family is spending R190 a week on paraffin after their illegal electricity connection failed and left them in the dark during winter.
School transport costs jump in uMgungundlovu and families are feeling it
Santaco has raised scholar transport fees across uMgungundlovu from 1 June 2026, with some areas paying R100 more, as rising fuel costs from the US-Iran conflict hit 15 million daily taxi commuters.
Work or wait for a grant, either way, you go hungry
South Africa's food crisis shows up in two places at once: in the homes of people who work, and in the homes of people who depend on a grant. This month's data shows both are falling short by almost exactly the same amount. These are their numbers.
Your taxi card now comes with a death benefit
Codeta has partnered with SA PAY to launch a cashless payment system from 1 June, giving registered drivers a R20,000 death benefit and passengers tiered cover with no premiums required.
Former store manager builds new life with paving blocks
Selwyn Hopper managed stores for Mr Price and Markham for years. When his retail career ended, depression followed. Now he is top of his paving class.
Joburg’s big promises landed in Kliptown, so did the maggots
Lolo Ndlovu has sent out hundreds of job applications from Kliptown. Mayor Dada Morero named Kliptown in his State of the City Address. She never heard a word of it.
She swapped her degree for a spade and won
A Limpopo woman who qualified as an occupational health officer but could not find work started a poultry and vegetable farm in Tzaneen in 2018 and now trains other women to farm.
No one would hire her, so she hired herself
Rudzani Moralane graduated with a Chemical Engineering qualification in 2011 and spent years unable to find work, before starting her own detergent manufacturing business.
The price of going to work just went up again
Soaring fuel prices, rising taxi fares and new bus increases are forcing desperate commuters back onto trains as transport costs spiral out of control.