This report estimates the living income and living wage for South Africa’s Honeybush-producing regions in the Western and Eastern Cape using the Anker Methodology®. It applies ARI’s Sub-National Estimation approach anchored to the recent Cape Winelands Living Wage Benchmark. Region-specific costs for food, housing, and non-food non-housing needs are estimated using national household expenditure data, labor market statistics, and official price data, while maintaining the benchmark’s normative standards.

This report estimates a living wage for the main wine-growing regions in the Western Cape province of South Africa for August 2025 using the Anker Methodology®, and replaces the previous benchmark used for Western Cape Province conducted in 2013. Our estimate of the living wage for a full-time worker in the Cape Winelands in August 2025 is R 7,921 per month (USD 446). This amount is based on the cost of a basic but decent living standard for a typical-size reference family of four people in the study area—two adults and two children—of R 12,704 per month (USD 715).