‘You pick up 10kg flour and you weigh it in your hands and in your heart’

28 August 2020 - 09:00
By suthentira govender AND Suthentira Govender
The cost of going the cheapest route for staple food is leaving poor SA women distressed.
Image: 123RF The cost of going the cheapest route for staple food is leaving poor SA women distressed.

The cost of going the cheapest route to put staple food on the table is leaving cash-strapped SA women distressed and worried about their families' health.

A household index report paints a grim picture of their ever-worsening struggle.