Cost of living: Choosing between bread and phone data in S Africa

Letta Nkabinde works in a factory in Johannesburg that manufactures cosmetics [Courtesy of Letta Nkabinde]

This story is part of a series exploring how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people around the world.

Johannesburg, South Africa – It is cold and dark when 53-year-old factory worker Letta Nkabinde leaves her home in Ivory Park at 5am to begin her hour-long commute to work.