{"id":19494,"date":"2026-05-07T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19494"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:50:52","slug":"stats-biz-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19494","title":{"rendered":"Stats Biz \u2013 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The education component in the CPI is updated once a year in March. Tuition fees increased by 5,4% in 2026, higher than the 4,5% rise recorded in 2025. Private secondary schools recorded the sharpest rise, climbing by 7,5%. Explore education inflation, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/StatsBiz_April_2026.pdf\">DownloadStatsBiz \u2013 April 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The education component in the CPI is updated once a year in March. Tuition fees increased by 5,4% in 2026, higher than the 4,5% rise recorded in 2025. Private secondary schools recorded the sharpest rise, climbing by 7,5%. Explore education inflation, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz. DownloadStatsBiz \u2013 April&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19494\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stats-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19501,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions\/19501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}