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Interest rates remain unchanged at 15-year high

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Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the SA Reserve Bank. (Tebogo Letsie)
Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the SA Reserve Bank. (Tebogo Letsie)

As expected, interest rates were left unchanged for the fifth consecutive Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Wednesday afternoon. 

The committee's decision was unanimous. SA Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said in his presentation in Pretoria that risks remained to SA's inflation expectations. 


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