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Maria Mokwena built ten backrooms for extra cash in 2014. Twelve years on, the Germiston grandmother now banks R40,000 a month renting to foreign traders.

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.

Nonkululeko Aphane takes six taxis every day between Alberton and Florida, Roodepoort, watching her own first fare rise from R16 to R23 in a year.

The Child Support Grant is R580 a month for any child, but the cost of feeding a teenage boy properly is R1,114.81, PMBEJD data shows.

South Africa's minimum wage is R30.23 an hour, but transport and electricity can cost more than a worker's whole wage on reduced hours, PMBEJD says.

Rising chicken feed and diesel costs have forced Mighty Nghamuni, a 28-year-old Limpopo farmer, to cut his broiler chickens from 500 to 300 per cycle.

Paraffin's maximum retail price fell by R6.97 a litre on 1 July, the biggest cut of any fuel this month, while petrol and diesel dropped.

Princess Motswene sells second-hand clothes near the Killarney taxi rank in Cape Town, and says she now sells to everyone, not just people living on grants.

Mmathapelo Sithole was unemployed when a buy now, pay later app approved her instantly. She believes it boosted her credit score, but that is unconfirmed.

For at least nine years, taxi fares in South Africa have never dropped after a fuel price cut, with no regulator, no complaints office and no law to compel them to.

A street vendor sold sweets and snacks from a plastic bag while joining the March and March protest at Sunnyside Police Station, saying undocumented foreign nationals must leave.

Protea Glen vendor Peter Monyeki kept his mobile kitchen open during Monday's shutdown, saying business was better because undocumented traders stayed away.