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Tito Mboweni played a key role in democratic South Africa’s economic policies. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

October 14, 2024

Tito Mboweni: South African Minister and Reserve Bank governor who drove significant economic reforms

Roy Havemann, Stellenbosch University

It is difficult to think of a South African economic policymaker who has left such an enduring legacy.

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February 23, 2023

South Africa’s bailout of Eskom won’t end power cuts: splitting up the utility can, as other countries have shown

Roy Havemann, Stellenbosch University

South Africa’s minister of finance should have used the bailout of Eskom to fast-track its split and introduce the private sector into the electricity sector.

A South African street vendor awaits customers. The country has some of the highest inequality in the world. Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images

October 4, 2022

A basic income grant for South Africa: more money in poor people’s pockets, but at a heavy cost

Hylton Hollander, Stellenbosch University; Daan Steenkamp, Stellenbosch University, and Roy Havemann, Stellenbosch University

An unfunded expansion of the social transfer system could lead to even worse economic outcomes — the medicine should not be worse than the disease.

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