{"id":226440,"date":"2026-05-16T23:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226440"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:54:27","slug":"costs-spiralling-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226440","title":{"rendered":"Costs spiralling out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to raise my concern about the rising cost of living in South Africa. Every year prices keep going up, but many people\u2019s salaries and job opportunities remain the same. Basic things such as food, transport and electricity are becoming too expensive. The recent increases in electricity tariffs are especially worrying&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/letters\/costs-spiralling-out-of-control\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=costs-spiralling-out-of-control\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to raise my concern about the rising cost of living in South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}