[TOP STORY] Food prices up 95% - Wages lag behind soaring prices

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‘Even where people are working, they are now categorised as the working poor because the cost of living is impacting everybody,’ says Makhiba Mollo, commissioner at the National Planning Commission.
20 May 2025 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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