CPI eases to 6.9% from 7.2%

GUEST – Patrick Kelly, STATS SA Chief Director for Price Statistics <br /> Annual consumer inflation cooled to 6.9% in January, from 7.2% in December. This is the third consecutive month of a decline. But food inflation hit the highest rate since 2009. The consumer price index (CPI) declined by 0.1% between December and January, Statistics SA reported.