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South Africa’s tame inflation has created room for the central bank to cut interest rates at each of its three remaining ...

Inflation has now been below the 4.5% midpoint of the South African Reserve Bank’s target range, where it prefers to anchor expectations, since August.

Although inflation in South Africa has edged up slightly, economists believe that interest rate cuts are still likely – and ...

As inflation sees a slight uptick in South Africa, the Reserve Bank weighs further interest rate cuts. Analysts predict a ...

We, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG), met on 17 and 18 July 2025, in Durban, South Africa. Under the G20 South African ...

South Africa’s tame inflation has created room for the central bank to cut interest rates at each of its three remaining ...

In its latest published forecasts, in May, the bank said that if, as markets expected, it lowers its cash rate target to 3.4% ...

The Reserve Bank’s deliberate plan to hold back on big cash rate increases worked as intended. Now its message is that the ...

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their identity or personal history. Pakistan and Iran are expelling millions ...