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South Africans could face rising living and borrowing costs after inflation accelerated to 4% in April, with economists warning that fuel-driven global price shocks — not domestic demand — are complicating the South African Reserve Bank’s interest rate outlook
APRIL INFLATION SOUTH AFRICA

Consumers face double blow as inflation rises and rate fears return

South Africans could face rising living and borrowing costs after inflation accelerated to 4% in April, with economists warning that fuel-driven global price shocks — not…

  • Hasina Kathrada
4 min read
Bombardment: Residential neighbourhoods targeted in airstrikes reportedly carried out by US and Israeli fighter jets in Tehran, Iran, on 7 March. Photo: Behnam Tofighi
CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IRAN

War on Iran spreads to Gulf energy lines

Attacks on South Pars and Qatar LNG facilities have extended the battlefield into systems that underpin global oil supply

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Under fire: The cargo ship Mayuree Naree was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. The Thai-flagged ship had departed Khalifa Port in the UAE on 11 March before coming under attack. Photo: Ae Pek
ENERGY MARKETS

SA warns of economic shock as Iran war expands

Iranian retaliation and Israeli air strikes are spreading across Gulf states and Lebanon, rattling energy markets and exposing deep divisions at the United Nations

  • Hasina Kathrada
6 min read