{"id":15682,"date":"2025-11-20T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sarb-to-announce-interest-rates-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:49","slug":"sarb-to-announce-interest-rates-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sarb-to-announce-interest-rates-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"SARB to announce interest rates on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor, Lesetja Kganyago, is to announce the Bank\u2019s decision on interest rates <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">this Thursday<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"> with some economists predicting a 25-basis point cut.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Statistics SA says consumer price inflation accelerated from 3.4% in September to 3.6% in October 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, Economist Elize Kruger says inflation remains under control and close to the SARB\u2019s 3% target.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cParticularly positive is the fact that food price inflation moderated further from a recent peak of 5.5% in July, food price inflation is now down to 3.9% and we actually had three consecutive months of declines in the food prices baskets. From this point of view, I think there is an opportunity for the Reserve Bank to cut interests on Thursday at the Monetary Policy Committee \u00a0meeting. So, I do expect a 25-basis point cut in the repo rate.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15626,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-15682","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Statistics SA says consumer price inflation accelerated from 3.4%.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Statistics SA says consumer price inflation accelerated from 3.4%.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19812,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15682\/revisions\/19812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}