[TOP STORY] Cost of living: Consumers warned of ‘multiplicity of shocks’

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‘The petrol component is an important one in the broader consumer price basket, we are going to see unfortunately that consumer price basket accelerate again,’ says Hugo Pienaar, chief economist at the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University.
6 Oct 2023 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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