A net amount of R5,6 billion worth of equities was sold during the calendar year 2002. This trend continued in January 2003, when R3 billion worth of equities was sold in that month. In February 2003, however, foreigners turned buyers of equities and they bought a net cumulative amount of R1,6 billion over the last four months.
In his communication, he mentioned that “Good governance is particularly important for statistics that have a direct administrative and policy use in Europe, such as the indicators for assessing the convergence of EU Member States that do not yet belong to the euro area and the statistics underlying the excessive deficit procedure”.