According to the SARB Act, shareholders receive a fixed annual 16  Governors and Deputy Governors are appointed for fixed five-year terms. My current term, for instance, began in November 2014 and expires in late 2019. Of the Deputy Governors, Daniel Mminele concludes his current term in June 2019, Kuben Naidoo in March 2020, and Francois Groepe in December 2022?.
Sustaining the high performance of the economy depends much more on what people in Minnesota do– along with those in Maine and Louisiana and Oregon–than it does on monetary policy. What do we mean when we say the economy is performing well?