All categories
September 2026
Transport
Covers vehicles, their running costs, passenger transport and transport of goods.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 07.1 Purchase of vehicles
- 07.2 Operation of personal transport equipment
- 07.3 Passenger transport services
- 07.4 Transport services of goods
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
10.8%
Month on month
+2.0%
Basket weight
13.9%
Contribution to annual inflation
+1.46 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Transport: by province
- 1Free State15.1%
- 2Western Cape12.6%
- 3Limpopo12.0%
- 4KwaZulu-Natal11.2%
- 5South Africa10.8%
- 6Gauteng10.5%
- 7Eastern Cape10.2%
- 8North West9.6%
- 9Mpumalanga8.7%
- 10Northern Cape8.6%