This forecast guided the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to maintain the Monetary Policy Rate at 3.5 percent in its meeting held here last week. Giving an update of the MPC’s deliberations, Moseki said that although inflation is expected to temporarily breach the upper bound of the three to six percent objective range, it is expected to be within the objective range in the medium term. The heartbreaking reports carried elsewhere on this publication of a woman killed in Metsimotlhabe and four family members perishing near Metsimaswaana Bridge are, devastatingly, not isolated incidents.
They represent the sharp, painful tip of a weekend that has seen far too many collisions, injuries, and losses on the roads. This alarming spike in fatalities is a screaming siren we cannot ignore. It compels a direct and urgent plea to every…
