JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s headline consumer price inflation stood at 5.9% year on year in April, unchanged from March, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Wednesday.
On a month-on-month basis, the consumer price index was at 0.6% in April from 1.0% in the previous month.
Core inflation, which excludes prices of food, non-alcoholic beverages, fuel and energy, rose to 3.9% year on year in April, from 3.8% previously.
On a month-on-month basis core inflation was at 0.4% from 0.8% previously.
(Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Nqobile Dludla)
