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Big petrol price win for South Africa | SA News

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 ·19 Feb 2026

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While inflation may not have cooled as much as forecasters had predicted in January, the big drop in petrol prices at the start of the year is to thank for things not going in the opposite direction.

Stats SA published the latest inflation data on Wednesday (18 February), marking a marginal decline in headline consumer pricing to 3.5% y/y for January.

This was slightly higher than the 3.4% y/y expected by economists, but was still lower than the 3.6% y/y recorded in…

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