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Don’t get it

By Prieur du Plessis, on May 5th, 2008 posted in: South Africa

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By Cees Bruggemans

It has not quite sunk in, except at the SARB.

CPIX is gunning for 12.5%, once past Eskom’s 60% tariff increase. Wage earners and businesses can be expected to desperately defend their real incomes and profit margins.

So give me a 12.5% wage increase, or more moderately, [...]

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