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BUSINESS

Survey shows food prices soaring above headline inflation

National minimum wage earners can’t afford sufficient nutritious food to feed their families

  • Lyse Comins
6 min read
COST OF LIVING

Raising the minimum wage won’t save South Africa

Rather do away with the unimplementable law and acknowledge that the minimum wage is what individuals are willing to work for and employers willing to pay

  • Nicholas Woode-Smith
4 min read