The latest food basket data shows food prices are still increasing and it is hurting poor people who already have to fork out more money for transport and electricity, further affecting their ability to buy nutritious food for their families. 🍴Economy
and it is hurting poor people who already have to fork out more money for transport and electricity, further affecting their ability to buy nutritious food for their families.Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group
The average cost of the basket also increased by R516.12 from the R4 450.09 recorded in March 2022. The basket includes the foods and volumes women from a family of seven members usually buy each month.The prices of these food items increased by more than 5% Although this sounds like small increases, an increase of R96.80 in March compared to February is a sizeable amount for people who have very little money for food.
General workers got an increase of 9,6% that means an extra R2.23 per hour, R17.84 for an 8-hour day and R392.48 for a full working-day month of an average 22 days.
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