November 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data In November 2022, food baskets decreased in Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg. Food baskets increased in Joburg, Durban, and Springbok.
October 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The average cost of the Household Food Basket decreased by R18,03 (-0,4%), from R4805,86 in September 2022 to R4787,83 in October 2022.
September 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data For the past three months fuel prices and global food commodity prices have come down, yet we do not see a corresponding drop in food prices at the retail level.
August 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The August 2022 Household Affordability Index shows that the average cost of the Household Food Basket is R4775,59.
July 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The July 2022 Household Affordability Index shows that the average cost of the Household Food Basket is R4748,87.
Living Within Our Means Interview Series The entire world's Overshoot Day is set to occur on July 28, 2022. If people across the world lived like those in the US and Europe, we would need many planets. But we only have one.
"Human rights should be the starting and the ending point" Interview Emilia Reyes is an international advocate for women's rights and an expert on gender-responsive public policies and budgets and sustainable development, including comprehensive disaster risk management and climate change. She highlights the necessity of degrowth and the problems of our global neoliberal system. By Emilia Reyes
"An Education Based on Strengthening Dignity and Respect for Others Has Become Indispensable" Interview Tarcila Rivera Zea from the Quechua-Chanka Nation of Peru has been an important indigenous activist and recognized defender of the rights of indigenous girls, women, youth and peoples for more than 40 years. She provides wisdom on how to educate young people to value Mother Earth. By Tarcila Rivera Zea
"Find a Way to Help your Community Using that Joy" Interview Keya Chatterjee is the Executive Director of US Climate Action Network (USCAN) and author of the book The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby. She lays out how to defend democracy and fight the climate crisis. By Keya Chatterjee
"We Need to Focus and Embrace our Similarities" Interview Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a climate, gender and environmental rights activist, public speaker, writer and Founder of Fridays For Future - Uganda. She explains how climate justice necessarily means social justice. By Hilda Flavia Nakabuye
