All categories
September 2026
Clothing and footwear
Covers clothing and footwear.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 03.1 Clothing
- 03.2 Footwear
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
+0.2%
Basket weight
3.9%
Contribution to annual inflation
+0.05 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Clothing and footwear: by province
- 1Eastern Cape1.6%
- 2Free State1.5%
- 3Western Cape1.3%
- 4Limpopo1.2%
- 5South Africa1.2%
- 6Mpumalanga1.2%
- 7North West1.1%
- 8Gauteng1.0%
- 9Northern Cape0.9%
- 10KwaZulu-Natal0.8%