Winter of discontent ahead as households brace for price shocks

13 March 2022 - 00:05 By NIVASHNI NAIR and SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER

Cash-strapped South Africans are being warned to brace themselves for the toughest economic conditions in at least a decade as food prices spiral and the war in Ukraine threatens to push fuel prices to record highs...

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