{"id":97709,"date":"2026-04-23T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kganyago-sounds-alarm-on-economic-concerns"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:10:12","slug":"kganyago-sounds-alarm-on-economic-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kganyago-sounds-alarm-on-economic-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Kganyago Sounds Alarm on Economic Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The South African Reserve Bank will respond to inflationary pressures triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran if they prove persistent, Governor Lesetja Kganyago said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not know how long this conflict is going to last,\u201d Kganyago told an audience on Wednesday at the Soweto Theatre, southwest of Johannesburg. When shocks like this arise, the central bank treats them as temporary, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is temporary, there is nothing for us to respond to, but if it becomes persistent, we end up having to respond to that shock,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<p>Kganyago and his monetary policy committee retained the benchmark rate at 6.75% last month, warning that an oil-price surge and rand weakness caused by the conflict in the Persian Gulf pose risks to the inflation outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank\u2019s quarterly projection model sees inflation peaking at 4.3% this month, after edging up to 3.1% in March, 0.1 percentage point above its target.<\/p>\n<p>The data was collected before South Africa hiked gasoline and diesel prices on April 1 by the steepest margin in almost two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jump in fuel price inflation is the largest in the history of inflation targeting,\u201d David Fowkes, a member of the MPC, said at the forum.<\/p>\n<p>Countries around the world are grappling with inflation shocks triggered by the US-Israeli attacks on Iran that began on Feb. 28, rolling out measures from fuel rationing to tax cuts and price controls.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude has surged more than 40% as flows through the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a critical chokepoint for about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas \u2014 have been constrained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The South African Reserve Bank will respond to inflationary pressures triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran if they prove persistent, Governor Lesetja Kganyago said. \u201cWe do not know how long this conflict is going to last,\u201d Kganyago told an audience on Wednesday at the Soweto Theatre, southwest of Johannesburg. When shocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":97708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-97709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kganyago Sounds Alarm on Economic Concerns - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kganyago-sounds-alarm-on-economic-concerns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kganyago Sounds Alarm on Economic Concerns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The South African Reserve Bank will respond to inflationary pressures triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran if they prove persistent, Governor Lesetja Kganyago said. \u201cWe do not know how long this conflict is going to last,\u201d Kganyago told an audience on Wednesday at the Soweto Theatre, southwest of Johannesburg. 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