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SARB interest rate announcement TODAY: What to expect

The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will meet for the third time in 2024 on Thursday, 30 May.

SA reserve bank interest rates - SARB/ Mampho Modise
The South African Reserve Bank. Image: @SARB

The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will meet for the third time in 2024 on Thursday, 30 May.

The MPC meets every second month.

As a reminder, in their second gathering of the year in late March, the central bank elected to keep the repo rate at 8.25% while the current prime lending rate stayed at 11.75%.

It was the fifth consecutive meeting that the interest rates had remained on hold.

Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago confirmed at the time that the vote was unanimous among the five-member committee.

Meanwhile, those experts in the know predict the SARB will keep the interest rate on hold once again.

While that would be ‘good’ news for those fearful of a hike, it represents bad news for those desperately seeking a cut.

Any possible rate cut has been pushed back to later in 2024 – or even into 2025.

Kganyago recently told Bloomberg that the SARB won’t succumb to election pressures as the country took to the polls to cast their votes in the general elections on Wednesday, 29 May.

SARB MPC MEETING DATES FOR 2024

MonthDate
January25 January
March27 March
May30 May
July18 July
September19 September
November21 November

REMINDER OF MONTHLY BOND REPAYMENTS

The table below shows the current monthly bond repayments on various bond values assuming no deposit and that repayments are at prime (11.75%):

Bond value (20 years)Monthly cost
R750 000R8 128
R800 000R8 670
R850 000R9 212
R900 000R9 753
R950 000R10 295
R1 000 000R10 837
R1 500 000R16 256
R2 000 000R21 674
R2 500 000R27 093
R3 000 000R32 511
R3 500 000R37 930
R4 000 000R43 348
R4 500 000R48 767
R5 000 000R54 185