Five Newsworthy Things in SA 22nd January 2024:

News in South Africa 22nd January: 1. High interest rates crushing households: Economist and independent analyst Dr Roelof Botha said the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) high interest rates have created a “self-inflicted pandemic” in the country as households struggle to get by. Botha’s comments were made in light of the Altron FinTech Household Resilience Index for […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 22nd November 2023:

News in South Africa 22nd November: 1. Inflation rises ahead of SARB decision: South Africa’s annual consumer price inflation (CPI) rose slightly in October, reaching the upper end of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) target range. StatsSA announced today that annual CPI was 5.9% in October 2023, up from the 5.9% recorded in September […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 20th November 2023:

News in South Africa 20th November: 1. SARB interest rate announcement: The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will be meeting this week for the last time in 2023, with the bank’s next decision on interest rates in the country expected on Thursday (23 November). For the last two meetings, the MPC […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 17th November 2023:

News in South Africa 17th November: 1. Egg supply is steadily increasing: The supply of egg and poultry meat is steadily increasing following shortages triggered by a bird flu outbreak that began in April, the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development said. “We are happy that the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak is under control […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 25th August 2023:

News in South Africa 25th August: 1. South Africa’s ‘true’ crime stats: Stats SA has published the latest Victims of Crime (VoC) survey, showing that thousands of crimes continue to go unreported in South Africa, skewing the true reflection of serious crimes in the country. The survey comes less than a week after the latest […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 24th July 2023:

News in South Africa 24th July: 1. Good week tainted by 2 industries: South Africa had a great week on the economic front last week, with Stats SA reporting a significant drop in inflation, the Reserve Bank holding on interest rates and the rand ending stronger against the dollar. However, economists at the Bureau for […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 20th July 2023:

News in South Africa 20th July: 1. Division over interest rate hikes: Economists are divided over whether South Africa’s central bank will pause interest-rate increases on Thursday, or extend its longest phase of monetary tightening since 2006.  Deteriorating inflation expectations, currency risks and enhancements to the South African Reserve Bank’s quarterly projection model, used to […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 5th July 2023:

News in South Africa 5th July: 1. Severe water shortage: Experts are warning of a looming water crisis on a scale worse than load-shedding in South Africa as criminal syndicates have begun targeting water infrastructure to score tenders.  Professor Anthony Turton from the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State warned […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 19th May 2023:

News in South Africa 19th May: 1. Price of water has tripled in the past decade: While most of the attention has been on the skyrocketing cost of electricity, especially as load shedding has become a near-permanent feature of daily life, the price households are paying for water has increased by significantly more in the […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 12th April 2023:

News in South Africa 12th April: 1. Home Affairs in termination of ZEP system: One of the most important human rights cases of recent decades got underway in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday, with no fewer than four separate cases challenging Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) […]

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