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What is the price of milk in the shops in South Africa?

Grocery prices in South Africa, from Statistics South Africa. An official figure as of 30 September 2026. In urban South Africa the average retail price of "Full cream milk - fresh, 1 Litre" was R20.46 in September 2026 (Stats SA consumer price index average prices, not receipts). That is 1.6% higher than a year earlier (R20.14 in September 2025). Official average published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) for 2026-09.

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ZAR 20.46 per 1 litre, average

In urban South Africa the average retail price of "Full cream milk - fresh, 1 Litre" was R20.46 in September 2026 (Stats SA consumer price index average prices, not receipts). That is 1.6% higher than a year earlier (R20.14 in September 2025). Official average published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) for 2026-09.

Reference period
2026-09 (the period the publisher states for this figure)
Kind of figure
An official average published by Statistics South Africa. It is passed on as published: no range of ours, and no count of records unless the publisher gives one.

Source: Statistics South Africa. Licence: Stats SA copyright with a free-use permission. Live answer: /api/v1/groceries?country=ZA&item=milk

Where this comes from

Source
Consumer Price Index (P0141): CPI average prices, all urban areas, Stats SA, published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
Licence
Stats SA copyright with a free-use permission (not an open licence): "Users may apply the information as they wish, provided that they acknowledge Stats SA as the source of the basic data wherever they process, apply, utilise, publish or distribute the data; and also that they specify that the relevant application and analysis (where applicable) result from their own processing of the data." (P0141 Consumer Price Index, August 2026, General information). Not cleared for paid use: served free.
Attribution
Source: Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), Consumer Price Index P0141, CPI average prices. The figures are Stats SA's published averages; selection of items and the changes calculated from them are the result of ProofPrice's own processing of the data.
Figures as of
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How fresh the source is
Monthly, about three weeks after the end of the month; collected into our price library every day, each answer states its reference month
Limits
National averages for all urban areas only (no provinces or towns in this source), for Stats SA's standard items and pack sizes; the file gives no count of prices behind an average. These are average retail prices compiled for price statistics (price collectors in shops), not receipts, and not the price at any one shop or online.
Rule
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