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‘Got money on my mind’: Pick n Pay’s ad features US rapper Rick Ross (left), local comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout (right) and DJ Khaled ‘s tune.
CHECKERS

An indigestible helping of hype

If stores must wheel out celebs to make us buy what we can’t afford, make it Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart

  • Christian Stephen
5 min read
On a month-on-month basis
ANNUAL INFLATION

Inflation cools to 3.8% in September

This is the lowest reading for inflation in South Africa since April 2021

  • Aarti Bhana
2 min read
A woman walks a dog past the so-called “people’s installation to a Russian soldier” nicknamed the “polite people” created by residents in the backyard of their apartment building in the town of Podolsk, outside Moscow, on March 28, 2022. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
ACTIVISM

The perfect storm: Covid-19, war and inequality

The disruptions brought by the Russia-Ukraine war will increase the costs of basic staples, putting 280-million people across the world at risk of starvation.

  • Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
5 min read