{"id":47491,"date":"2026-10-07T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47491"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:24:55","slug":"sa-faces-rising-risk-of-broader-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-faces-rising-risk-of-broader-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"SA faces rising risk of broader price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) threat of more generalised price hike in the local economy has increased substantially.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This was the word from the SA Reserve Bank (SARB), which convened its Monetary Policy Review meeting, reflecting on monetary policy from April to September this year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Monetary Policy Committee of the SARB raised rates by 50 basis points during the period as it sought to deal with evidence of higher inflation and influence price expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The bank noted that while the global economy had remained relatively resilient in difficult times, global inflation had risen between April and September this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Central banks, including SARB, had moved to curb inflationary pressures.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13745,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-47491","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA face threat of more generalised price hike","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47491","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\/47491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47492,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47491\/revisions\/47492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}