{"id":23015,"date":"2026-01-28T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sarb-likely-to-keep-repo-rate-unchanged\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:54","slug":"sarb-likely-to-keep-repo-rate-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sarb-likely-to-keep-repo-rate-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"SARB likely to keep repo rate unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is widely expected to keep the repo rate unchanged when it makes its announcement this Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This means indebted consumers will continue paying the same for their debt instalments, while those with savings, will continue earning the same interest rate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut rates by 25 basis points at their November meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It \u00a0will be announcing its first decision of the year on Thursday, with economists expecting the central bank to keep the rate unchanged at 6.75%, meaning the prime lending rate will remain at 10.5%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The MPC is trying to drive inflation closer to its new target of 3% in an uncertain environment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Annual consumer price inflation was 3.6% in December, up from 3.5% in November.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Investec Chief Economist Annabel Bishop says she expects the next move in the repo rate to be in March this year, with a 25 basis points cut as inflation is expected to decelerate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15626,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-23015","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut rates by 25 basis points at their November meeting.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut rates by 25 basis points at their November meeting.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23015","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\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26122,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23015\/revisions\/26122"}],"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=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}