The South African Reality Index

Chankura tracks the real, unvarnished cost of living in South Africa using publicly available data, structured into plain-language indexes that anyone can understand.

Why we built this

South Africans make daily financial decisions against a backdrop of fuel prices that change monthly, a grocery basket that inflates faster than CPIX, load shedding that nobody has priced properly, and a tax system that most people have never had explained to them clearly. Chankura exists to put the actual numbers in front of actual people.

What we are not

• ✕Not financial advisors. Nothing on this site is financial advice.
• ✕Not affiliated with any product, bank, or political party.
• ✕Not a substitute for a licensed tax practitioner or financial planner.