
South African meat prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly eight years in December as the country battles an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, adding to food-inflation pressures.
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Meat prices in urban areas were 12.6% higher in December than a year earlier and were the fastest growing price component in the food-inflation basket, according to data published by the Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa on Wednesday. The increase was the highest since January 2018, when meat inflation reached 13.4%.
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