As economic journalists, you continue to be a major channel for transparency and provider of key economic information for the business community. From the point of view of the BSP, you have also played a vital role in our efforts to communicate the basis and implications of monetary policy to the markets and the general community.
In other words, the reforms delivered an overarching framework for making economic policy choices. 8  One example among many is as follows: “There is almost no power on earth which will prevent politicians (and certainly not ANC politicians) from taking large bags of money if their constituency is frantic for houses and jobs and the money is on offer.