LOCAL The country’s annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of August decreased to 7.6% from 7.8% in July 2022. Statistics South Africa says month-on-month CPI increased to 0.2%. It says the main contributors to inflation were food and non-alcoholic beverages, housing, utilities and transport. Food and non-alcoholic beverages[…]
LOCAL The DA has rejected Eskom’s application to increase electricity tariffs by 32.7%, saying South Africans cannot pay more to be kept in the dark. The embattled state-owned power utility asked the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for a tariff increase which will see households pay more for electricity during […]
South Africa has recorded 4 227 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 935 761. This increase represents a 15.7% positivity rate. According to the NICD, “Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health, there may be a backlog of COVID-19[…]
LOCAL Things are looking unbelievably bleak for SA motorists as June is set to usher in a petrol price hike of horrific proportions. It’s an economic perfect storm: thanks to government’s suspension on the general fuel levy coming to an end — an automatic increase of R1.50 per litre — mixed[…]
With fuel prices surging and another increase expected next month, government has suggested that people who can work from home do so to save. Petrol hit R21/l for the first time earlier this month after a R1.46 increase, but there are fears of a much steeper increase that could see it[…]
The Automobile Association is expecting the cost of petrol to rise well above R20 per litre at the start of March. The main factors influencing the monthly fuel price adjustments are the Rand-Dollar exchange rate and the price of petroleum products such as Brent Crude Oil. During the first half[…]
Motorists can expect an increase in petrol prices on Wednesday. The Department of Energy says Petrol is set to increase by 29 cents a litre of 93 unleaded petrol. And leaded petrol will increase by 26 cents a litre. Diesel will see an increase of 42 cents and illuminating paraffin[…]
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) says it won’t increase the taxi fares just yet. Santaco Spokesperson, Thabiso Molelekwa, however, says a hike is likely in the near future. He says financial losses incurred by the industry during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic may necessitate a significant price[…]
Cope says government should review the 15% electricity tariff increase that kicked in on Thursday. The party’s spokesperson Dennis Bloem has condemned the electricity hike. He says it will further kill the economy and hit the poor and unemployed the hardest: “Government can never justify this increase. Millions of people[…]
SA recorded 210 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total fatalities from the respiratory illness to 23,661. In releasing the figures, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday night that the bulk of the deaths were recorded in the Eastern Cape (95) and the[…]
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