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Legacy 2009

Nov 12, 2009 3:28am

The day you die, the only thing you leave behind is your legacy. What will your legacy be? Legacy is camp for young men, who are still at school (grade 10 to 12). This year the camp is running in Cape Town, from 12 to 18 December 2009. You can get more information...

Reader Q & A: Interest rate predictions for next two years

Aug 27, 2009 2:28am

Hi Francois What are your interest rate expectations for the next few years? I’m especially interested in rate estimates till September 2011. Regards, Zafreen Hi Zafreen I wish I could say with certainty what will happen with the economy, inflation and interest rates over the next two years, but unfortunately the best I can do is...

Interest rates at 28 year lows

Aug 13, 2009 7:03am

The latest interest rate cut by the SARB brings interest rates down to the lowest level they’ve been in 28 years. The prime interest rate is currently touching a 28-year low, which was equaled briefly in April 2005. Before that the last time South Africa had interest rates lower than what we...

SARB lowers interest rates

Aug 13, 2009 6:32am

The SARB’s monetary policy committee (MPC) announced today that they’ve decided to lower the repo rate by another 50 basis points. The latest rate cut brings the repo rate down to to 7.0% and the prime interest rate down to 10.5%. The move comes as a surprise to many economists who...

Inflation continues its downward trend

Jul 30, 2009 2:56pm

The CPI and PPI inflation figures for June 2009 are out. The year-on-year headline CPI inflation rate for June 2009 is 6.9%, 1.1 percentage points lower than the figure for May 2009. PPI inflation also came in lower at -4.1%, also down 1.1 percentage points when compared to the figure for May...

How to display the current interest rate, inflation rate, or GDP growth rate on your website

Jul 10, 2009 12:40pm

I receive a lot of emails asking about the current inflation and interest rates. So I decided to create a few widgets. You can use these widgets if you want to display the current interest rates, inflation rates and/or GDP growth rates on your own blog or website. The widgets automatically fetch...

Love, Life and Financial Planning

Jul 8, 2009 11:23am

In the end, all that remains is faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is cash flow. One of my friends made this joke the other day. I found it amusing, because (shockingly so) it rings with truth. Bad financial planning is probably one of the leading causes of divorce,...

Is there anything in particular…

Jul 2, 2009 9:49am

…that just makes your heart beat abnormally fast? ...

What is a Recession?

Jun 30, 2009 9:03am

A recession is a sustained economic decline. An economy is usually regarded to be in a recession if it experiences a decline in GDP for two consecutive quarters. Recession An economy that is in a recession is a shrinking economy. Recessions are usually accompanied by a decrease in production, a general fall in...

GDP Growth Rate in South Africa

Jun 29, 2009 10:12am

This page shows the current GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth rate, as well as a graph and table of the GDP growth rates in South Africa, since 1993. swfobject.embedSWF("/common/open-flash-chart/open-flash-chart.swf", "chart_gdp_growth_rate", "560", "200", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", {"data-file":"%2Fcommon%2Fcharts%2Frate_chart.php%3Fchart%3Dgdp_growth_rate_chart.php"} ); The current GDP growth rate is document.write(latest_gdp_rate);% (based on the GDP data for the quarter ending...