What South Africans pay for food, fuel, cars and everyday services, checked every month and kept as history. Every price names where it came from.
Each item has a fixed description, such as a 700 g white sliced loaf or a litre of inland 95 petrol, so prices compare like with like over time. Regulated fuel prices come from the official monthly tables. Other prices are found with an AI-assisted web search of public price listings and checked before they are published; prices the system is not confident about are held back until a person reviews them.
Every price shows the store, publisher or provider it came from and the date it was seen, for example “Checkers · 9 Nov 2026”. When several stores were checked, the headline is the middle (median) price and each store is listed.
Fuel prices run monthly from January 2012, with earlier inland petrol prices back to 1976 shown as individual data points. About 120 everyday groceries and household items carry Stats SA’s official monthly average shelf prices from January 2017, with a province-by-province breakdown. For these, the headline price, changes and chart use the Stats SA average so that every month compares like with like; our own store checks are shown alongside. Other items build their history from the first check onwards.
Provincial prices currently come from Stats SA for the items it covers; other items show one national price. Items appear only once they have a published price.
Prices are a guide only. They are what a public listing showed on the date given and may differ in store, by branch, by province or after promotions end. Price Moves is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any retailer or brand named here. Names are used only to say where a price came from. Prices include VAT unless marked otherwise; petrol, diesel and paraffin are zero-rated.
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