She indicated that the bank was quite concerned with inflation pressures becoming more generalised, which means that there's evidence that inflation is being passed on to more consumer goods. The result is that some analysts are now expecting an increase in the repo rate later this year, instead of rates remaining flat for the year.
However, our outlook for rates remains unchanged for now for the following reasons:
My view is that interest rate will remain unchanged and I'm also not looking for a change in interest rates this year.