All categories
September 2026
Education services
Covers education from pre-primary and primary through secondary and tertiary levels.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 10.1 Pre-primary and primary education
- 10.2 Secondary education
- 10.4 Tertiary education
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
5.4%
Month on month
0.0%
Basket weight
2.4%
Contribution to annual inflation
+0.13 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Education services: by province
- 1Western Cape6.1%
- 2Northern Cape5.9%
- 3Gauteng5.5%
- 4KwaZulu-Natal5.4%
- 5South Africa5.4%
- 6Free State5.2%
- 7North West5.1%
- 8Eastern Cape4.0%
- 9Limpopo3.5%
- 10Mpumalanga3.5%