{"id":93244,"date":"2025-11-20T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sarb-confirms-no-50-basis-point-repo-rate-cut-considered"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:56:24","slug":"sarb-confirms-no-50-basis-point-repo-rate-cut-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sarb-confirms-no-50-basis-point-repo-rate-cut-considered","title":{"rendered":"SARB Confirms No 50 Basis Point Repo Rate Cut Considered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) says a 50 basis point cut on the repo rate was not on the table when the monetary policy committee (MPC) met for the November meeting this week.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank announced its latest decision on policy rates on Thursday, where the six-member MPC cut the benchmark policy rate down by 25 basis points.<\/p>\n<p>This means the repo rate now stands at 6.75%, while the prime lending rate stands at 10.25%.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said the quarterly projection model continues to forecast gradual rate cuts as inflation subsides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were to, for now, forget the QPM is a policy guide and you were just following it and accept it as the seventh member of the MPC, the QPM had said it\u2019s 25bps at a couple of meetings going forward \u2013 it had like 5 points of 25bps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While risks have subsided slightly, Kganyago said that caution was still needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a very uncertain environment and it\u2019s important that we move with caution. 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