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Further Reserve Bank repo rate cut unlikely this year

Business Thando Maeko - 2 Oct 2020

The central bank estimates that gross domestic product (GDP) to contract by 8.2% in 2020

The repo rate remains unchanged at 3.5%

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 17 Sep 2020

Three members of the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) have decided to keep rates unchanged at 3.5%

Covid wave brings second quarter slide

Business Tshegofatso Mathe & Thando Maeko - 6 Sep 2020

The gross domestic product numbers are likely to be gloomy, but the economy is not at ground zero

South Africa gets $4.3bn IMF loan. In return, the country must reform

Business Thando Maeko - 29 Jul 2020

The loan, which is repayable over five years at an interest rate of 1.1%, comes with various self-imposed conditions such cutting the public wage bill and rationalising support to the state-owned entities

Repo rate falls to 3.5% — its lowest since 1998

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 23 Jul 2020

Repo rate drops to 3.5% as Reserve Bank predicts a 7.3% contraction in South Africa’s GDP

Reserve Bank cuts repo rate by 50 basis points

Business Thando Maeko - 21 May 2020

The Monetary Policy Committee has cut the repurchase rate by a further 50 basis points, after a two consecutive cuts of 100 basis points earlier this year

Government should offer debt guarantees

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 16 Apr 2020

A research institution says the government should guarantee small businesses’ debt in order to keep the sector that employs millions of South Africans afloat amid Covid-19

No money to spare as GDP set to fall

Article Tshegofatso Mathe & Thando Maeko - 16 Apr 2020

With little money to respond to Covid-19, the government is looking at other sources of funding

GDP to contract 6.1% — Reserve Bank

Article Thando Maeko & Tshegofatso Mathe - 14 Apr 2020

The central bank warns of the harmful effect of Covid-19 on the economy, while the treasury details more plans to ease the pain

Repo rate cut by 100 basis points

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 19 Mar 2020

This takes the rate to 5.25% per annum, from 6.25%

Central banks are waking up to climate change dangers. It’s about time

Article Danny Bradlow - 4 Sep 2019

To deal with climate change, central banks may have to encourage financial institutions to favour certain types of activities over others

Editorial: The magic amount: R500 000

Article Editorial - 15 Aug 2019

One of the most pressing political crises started with our multibillionaire president being questioned in Parliament about R500 000

Editorial: Bank woes – but not in SA

Article Editorial - 12 Jul 2019

'We have our own problems in South Africa — not least a fashionable debate over the role and independence of the Reserve Bank'

Kganyago gets another five years

Article Thando Maeko - 12 Jul 2019

His reappointment as head of the Reserve Bank has been greeted as a positive move for stability

Kganyago describes expansion of central bank mandate as ‘noise’

Article Thando Maeko - 5 Jul 2019

The Reserve Bank governor says the mandate of the bank is constitutionally enshrined

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