We have seen the price of fuel go up over the last couple of months in South Africa, together with the price of food. Interest rates have also been going up, it seems like the cost of everything is going up right now in South Africa and it looks like the price of beer will also be going up soon after the SAB (South African Breweries) implemented its annual price increase yesterday. But not to dishearten those beer lovers out there, the increase is not as great as the increases in everything else in South Africa.

SAB say they will increase prices by an average of 5.08%. This is much lower than the current inflation of 7.9% in South Africa. Last year, SAB only increased their prices by 2.84%. SAB have not yet announced how the price increased will be passed onto the consumer or when as the prices are set by the retailers. Read the rest of this entry »

On Monday (24 September), South Africa celebrates National Braai day. It is a public holiday on Monday so people in South Africa have a long weekend starting today. So far all those outside South Africa, when you try to call our offices on Monday and no one is answering, please note that we will be braaing!

Braaing is a national pastime in South Africa and it is nice to see that a day has actually been put aside to celebrate this. Very few places across the world can match up to a great South African braai. Around the world they call them barbeques but it just doesn’t sound right hearing the word ‘barbeque’ mentioned in South Africa.

So everyone please get out your braai stands come Monday when you are not going to work and lets celebrate this great day and we get back to work with a bang come Tuesday.

Please visit the National Braai day website by clicking here.