All categories
September 2026
Food and non-alcoholic beverages
Covers food and non-alcoholic drinks.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 01.1 Food
- 01.2 Non-alcoholic beverages
Source: Stats SA, Consumer Price Index: Sources and Methods, Report No. 01-41-01 (2026), section 2.2 and Annexure 1 – CPI basket of goods and services (COICOP 2018)
Year on year
1.2%
Month on month
-0.1%
Basket weight
18.2%
Contribution to annual inflation
+0.21 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Food and non-alcoholic beverages: by province
- 1Western Cape3.3%
- 2Northern Cape2.0%
- 3Eastern Cape2.0%
- 4South Africa1.2%
- 5Gauteng0.9%
- 6Mpumalanga0.7%
- 7Free State0.5%
- 8KwaZulu-Natal0.0%
- 9North West-0.2%
- 10Limpopo-0.8%