Thus, the recent discussions about government potentially changing the shareholding structure of the SARB are  10 http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/SAConstitution-web-eng.pdf  Page 6 of 12  largely inconsequential to the way in which the central bank operates.
I was reminded of this when I read the recent quote of one banker who, when asked why his bank had come through the U.K. 1973 secondary banking crisis so well, replied that ”it was simple: we only lent to people who had been to Eton”.