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/ 5 February 2009
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will probably stick to his conservative fiscal stance next week, ignoring demands for a populist budget.
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/ 27 January 2009
Summit leaders said on Tuesday they had reached a breakthrough in implementing a power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe, but the MDC expressed disappointment.
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/ 26 January 2009
Regional leaders met the Zanu-PF and the MDC at a summit in SA on Monday to try to push them to implement a Zimbabwe power-sharing deal.
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/ 23 January 2009
SA’s targeted consumer price inflation likely decelerated sharply in December on cooling demand, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
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/ 24 October 2008
South Africa’s targeted consumer inflation is likely to have slowed for the first time in a year in September, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
SA’s targeted CPIX consumer inflation is expected to have raced to an all-time high in the year to July on the impact of power price increases.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will ask regional leaders to help resolve the deadlock in talks with President Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC and President Robert Mugabe will begin negotiations on a power-sharing deal in earnest on Thursday, officials say.
Tensions that triggered a backlash against foreigners last month are likely to simmer for years as South Africa’s poor domestic skills base forces it to rely on migrant labour.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Tuesday inflation was expected to rise, but that it remained committed to bringing the gauge within target range ”over a reasonable time horizon”. The targeted CPIX consumer inflation gauge has persisted above the top end of a 3% to 6% range since April 2007, and accelerated to a new five-year high of 10,1% year-on-year in March.