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SARB MPC expected to announce repo rate
The crucial question is will the reserve bank be aggressive when cutting the repo rate to help accelerate the economy?
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Scammers use coronavirus to trick fearful South Africans
The criminals carried fake identification badges and provided false receipts to victims, who were told they could exchange the slips for "clean" cash at any bank.
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Kganyago: Impact of coronavirus on SA economy hard to predict
The virus, which emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan last year, has so far infected more than 73,000 people in China and 25 other countries and caused nearly 2,000 fatalities so far.
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Reserve Bank starts process to sell its 50% stake in African Bank
African Bank was placed under the central bank's control in 2014 after nearly collapsing under the weight of bad loans.
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Kganyago announces repo rate cut to 6.25%
The decision follows this week's Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
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ANC warns Mboweni to toe party line on Sarb nationalisation
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni took to Twitter on Tuesday to ask what the ANC wanted to achieve by nationalising the bank.
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Sarb fines 5 banks for weaknesses in money laundering control measures
They are Standard Bank South Africa, Grobank, Ubank, Bank of China Johannesburg branch and HBZ Bank.
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Room for repo rate cut in January, says economist
Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago cited a number of concerns, including stagnant growth and other headwinds for keeping the repo rate unchanged at 6.5%.
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Repo rate to remain unchanged at 6.5%
The repo rate is the rate at which the central bank lends money to commercial banks.
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Bill to nationalise SA's central bank back in Parliament
The reintroduction of the bill comes at an awkward time for President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is on an investment drive to boost an ailing economy.
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Low potential growth needs to be addressed, Sarb on economy
The bank said South Africa would keep paying a high rate of interest on the loans used to plug a widening budget deficit until its fiscal problems were addressed.
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Repo rate to remain unchanged at 6.5%
The repo rate is the rate at which the central bank lends money to commercial banks.
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Kganyago: Africa's economic outlook positive
South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago made the remarks during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town which ended on Friday.
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Lungisa confident Kganyago lawsuit against him over K-word slur will fail
South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago was suing Lungisa for R500,000 after the politician called him an 'exceptional K-word'.
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Sarb governor says will go to war to protect independence
The central bank governor said that he would not engage in internal ANC party squabbles, but he would strongly defend the central bank’s independence if it was threatened by any government proposals.
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Reserve Bank imposes administrative sanction on Bank of Baroda
The authority said Bank of Baroda was instructed to rectify the deficiencies but failed to do so which resulted in them being slapped with an R11 million fine.
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Sarb: Africapacity must get banking license in order to buy VBS Bank
VBS was placed into liquidation by the High Court of South Africa last November and its banking activities and license suspended.
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Stats SA: EC, Mpumalanga have the highest unemployment rates
Statistician-general Risenga Maluleke released the quarterly labour force survey, which showed that unemployment rose to 29% in the second quarter of this year.
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CARTOON: The Hits Keep Coming
By Dr Jack.
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Sarb governor says will look to keep lending rates predictable
The country suffered a decline in the first-quarter economic growth of 3.2%, the worst in a decade, as power outages by state utility Eskom hit mining, manufacturing and retailers.
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Kganyago says central bank debate 'damaging'
A debate over ownership of the South African central bank is increasing investor uncertainty and stoking the risk premium associated with the country’s debt, Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Wednesday.
