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Currency fluctuations: how “political” is the South African rand?
This then begs the question, to what extent is the rand political and unreliable?
26 July 2024
This then begs the question, to what extent is the rand political and unreliable?
The solution indeed lies in deregulation and limiting the state’s role in people’s economic affairs.
In a clear display of the universally deprecated phenomenon of ’judicial activism’, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently handed down a judgment in which it effectively banned what has been dubbed as “the gratuitous display of the old apartheid flag”.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has recently drawn opprobrium and come under intense scrutiny.
The year 2024 has been projected as the year that will usher in a “watershed moment” in the country’s political landscape.
It is not uncommon for a fledgling domestic industry to lobby its government to legislate in its favor and shield it from competition with other foreign industries which trade in similar or the same goods.
The very idea of a court telling anyone that they cannot do with their body or education as they please should make any liberty-loving person cringe.
Every crisis has a history and beginning. For Eskom (South Africa’s monopoly energy provider), the crisis began in 1998 when a government White Paper on Energy forewarned that the power utility faces potential collapse, if its infrastructure was not properly maintained.