The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has highlighted that South African food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) inflation (hereafter to be called just food inflation, for short) in September was pretty much the same as it had been in August. In year-on-year (y-o-y) terms, food inflation was up 4.7%, but in month-on-month (m-o-m) terms it increased by only 0.6%. However, September was the second month in a row that food inflation ran higher than consumer price index (CPI) headline ...
