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Ramaphosa’s message to Shoprite, Pick n Pay and other retail giants in South Africa | SA News

Staff Writer
 ·21 Oct 2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africa’s grocery retailers to do more to bring down the cost of food in the country, and to steer clear of cartel behaviour.

In his weekly letter to the nation, the president said that food security and the rising cost of living were fundamental challenges that the Government of National Unity (GNU) sought to address at its founding.

Over the past year, however—rocked by internal and external factors—it has proven difficult to keep food inflation contained.

While headline inflation has…

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