# The EFF says Statistics South Africa’s July 2025 Consumer Price Index demonstrates that the cost of living continues to rise in ways that are unsustainable for the working class and poor. Inflation has risen to a ten-month high of 3.5-percent in July, up from three-percent in June. The EFF says global economic changes, including rising US tariffs, are seeping into South Africa’s import basket. It adds that it rejects the logic of austerity and market-driven governance that abandons the poor in the face of inflationary pressure.
EFF says living costs are becoming unsustainable for the working class and the poor