Tag: Consumers
South Africa inflation continues to ease
South African consumer prices increased by 5.1% in June compared with a year earlier, continuing a trend of easing inflation and adding to pressure...
You ‘eat’ 30 kilos of soil a day…
Every meal you eat now costs the planet 10kg in lost topsoil.
That’s the warning of “Surviving the 21st Century” author Julian Cribb...
Landlords need help to avoid an ‘iceberg’ of consumer debt
Like most other consumers in SA, residential tenants are under considerable financial pressure at the moment, and battling to meet all their commitments. And...
2017’s Biggest Consumer Led Trends in South Africa
While South Africa faces a weak rand, recent downgrades to junk status and a somewhat shaky political period in time, the retail industry is...
Consumers have spoken; Santam is once again rated SA’s top insurer
South African consumers have spoken. They have for the second year running named short-term insurer Santam the top insurer in the country when it...
Does ‘sin tax’ have the desired impact on consumer behaviour?
Coughing Up to Cut Down?
In his recently delivered Budget Speech, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said that the anticipated 20% tax on sweetened sugar beverages...
Borehole water consumers warned again in CT
This past week the city's water inspectorate held so-called water blitzes in areas including Constantia, Meadowridge and Somerset West.
The City of Cape...
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