Economists foresee that the inflation rate for the month of July could slightly increase to about 5.5% up from 5.4% in June.
Economists say this could see the three-month downward annual disinflation trend coming to a halt.
With the rand depreciating nearly 12% this year and peaking over R19 against the US dollar in the month of July.
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