More fuel hikes on the cards: Expert - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

  • 📰 SABCNews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 18 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 10%
  • Publisher: 51%

France Nouvelles Nouvelles

France Dernières Nouvelles,France Actualités

Consumers are unlikely to see a respite from rising petrol prices in the near future: Economist

Efficient Group Chief Economist Dawie Roodt says consumers are unlikely to see a respite from rising petrol prices in the near future.by 53 cents a litre at midnight, while diesel increased by up to 84 cents a litre depending on the grade.“Unfortunately, the South African economy is slowing down quite significantly.

Economic growth in SA is likely to be much, much weaker this year than last year and part of the reason for that has to do with increasing levels of inflation which can be attributed to a higher petrol price and that means the reserve bank will have to increase interest rates to ensure that the lid is kept on inflation,’ says Roodt.

 

Merci pour votre commentaire. Votre commentaire sera publié après examen.

If I enjoy the privilege all alone it shows how ungrateful I am, because I got the opportunity from a tweet here as well…all thanks to good work of cryptoverseJ

School Kids poisoned by Somalians Here's the full video and story on what happened

'the tax burden on petrol' Ftfy

Nous avons résumé cette actualité afin que vous puissiez la lire rapidement. Si l'actualité vous intéresse, vous pouvez lire le texte intégral ici. Lire la suite:

 /  🏆 37. in FR

France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités