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A new free app called Grocify lets South Africans compare real-time grocery prices at Shoprite, Checkers, Pick n Pay, Spar and Woolworths without an account.

Protests over electricity disconnections and tariff increases shut schools and blocked major roads across Tembisa on Monday.

Capitec's mobile network is now selling Samsung smartphones through the Capitec app, with buyers getting 30GB of free data and delivery within three days.

New affordability data shows that 43.8% of Black South Africans live below the poverty line.

Sasol has paid no dividend to shareholders after the company's profits fell by 95% in the last six months of 2025.

Vegetable and fruit sellers outside Pan Africa Mall in Johannesburg say they are going hungry after the city banned them from pavement trading in November.

Almost half of South Africa's young people are out of work, and most have been jobless for more than a year.

A Lusikisiki pensioner in the Eastern Cape sells cooked amadumbe for R15 a bunch because her R2,315 pension does not cover all her family's expenses.

Businesses in Park Central and Selby, Johannesburg, have had no permanent water for nearly nine months, forcing owners to fight to keep their doors open.

Without a job or qualifications, Sechaba Molefe, 23, makes about R500 a day holding queues for pensioners at shops and at government offices in Soweto.

The City of Johannesburg wants to bring a fresh produce market to Soweto to cut travel costs and give residents easier access to affordable food.

A young mother from Elliotdale lost her NSFAS allowance after finishing her studies. With no job, she returned home and started selling spinach to survive.