{"id":40275,"date":"2026-07-22T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40275"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:57:43","slug":"sa-inflation-jumps-more-than-expected-in-june","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-inflation-jumps-more-than-expected-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"SA inflation jumps more than expected in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) headline consumer \u200cinflation accelerated faster than expected to 5.0% year on year in June \u200bfrom 4.5% in May, \u200bdata from the statistics agency showed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In month-on-month terms \u200binflation was at 0.7% in June, \u200bthe same rate as in May.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">SA imports the majority of its fuel, making it sensitive \u200bto \u200bthe surge \u2060in global energy costs since the war \u200bstarted in late February.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The \u200bS\u2060A Reserve Bank aims to keep inflation at 3% and \u2060is \u200bscheduled to announce \u200ban interest rate decision on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21188,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-40275","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA headline consumer \u200cinflation accelerated faster than expected","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40275","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\/40275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40276,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40275\/revisions\/40276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}