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June\u2019s reading is the lowest since September 2020, when the rate was 3.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot beverages, however, rose to 16.5%, from 14.2% in May. The change was driven by sharp price increases for drinking chocolate (+3.5%), black tea (+2.7%), instant coffee (+2.2%) and rooibos tea (+1.6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual rate for bread and cereals increased for the first time in 14 months, with sharp increases for maize meal (+3.3%) and samp (+3%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=17413\">StatisticsSA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2615\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoutlier.co.za\/tools\/consumer-prices\">EXPLORE OUR CONSUMER PRICE DASHBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1387],"tags":[988,986,92,987,95,588,243],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-88600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-the-outlier","tag-cost-of-living-crisis","tag-cpi","tag-economy","tag-food-prices","tag-inflation","tag-statistics-sa","tag-statssa"],"acf":{"big_number":"","big_number_caption":"","big_number_link":"","big_number_background":"","big_number_text_colour":"#000000","big_number_icon":false,"big_number_wide":"yes","featured_chart":{"ID":88601,"id":88601,"title":"CPI-chart-24July2024","filename":"CPI-chart-24July2024.png","filesize":33001,"url":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024.png","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/sas-inflation-rate-cools-to-5-1-despite-steaming-price-of-hot-beverages\/cpi-chart-24july2024\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"cpi-chart-24july2024","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":88600,"date":"2024-07-24 14:07:23","modified":"2024-07-24 14:07:31","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":600,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024.png","medium_large-width":600,"medium_large-height":600,"large":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024.png","large-width":600,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024.png","1536x1536-width":600,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CPI-chart-24July2024.png","2048x2048-width":600,"2048x2048-height":600}},"flourish_chart_id":"","flourish_sub_title":"","flourish_chart_width":"medium","is_newsletter_post":"No","post_style":"ch","show_on_front":"Yes","link_through":"Yes","chart_url":"","background_colour":"#0089AA","text_colour":"#FFFFFF"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88600"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88611,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88600\/revisions\/88611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88600"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=88600"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=88600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}