The ANC still wants the central bank to be nationalised, but this will not affect the institution’s mandate or independence, party officials said on Tuesday. The ANC resolved at a party conference in December 2017 to move to full state ownership of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
“Our position on the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank has not changed. If you talk about the sovereignty of that bank, belonging to the people, is one and the same thing,” ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule told reporters.
“We have said we are going to implement our decisions. All the decisions which must be implemented, must be implemented in a responsible way,” he added. The party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte said the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank would not change if the bank was nationalised.
“(The mandate) cannot change because of who the shareholder is, that’s not the issue,” Duarte said.
Some officials in the ANC have called in recent months for the bank’s mandate to be extended beyond inflation-targeting to include boosting economic growth and unemployment.
Governor Lesetja Kganyago said last week that a debate over ownership of the central bank was increasing investor uncertainty and fuelling the risk premium attached to the country’s debt.
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Source: eNCA
