PETER BRUCE: If it were up to Mkhwebane, inflation would have eaten your lunch
The so-called public protector tried to force the Bank to target economic growth, but thankfully was beaten back
It isn’t always pleasant to be reminded that SA is still part of the global economy. I remember the early afternoon of September 11 2001, when we were busy preparing a bumper edition of Business Day. One of the adverts I’d seen on the page plan was for American Express — it had the Big Ben clock tower at the UK parliament bending in a strong wind. Half a page! That was big money back then.
Then terrorists flew an airliner into the World Trade Center in New York. Within 20 minutes we lost five full pages worth of advertising as multinationals everywhere pulled their marketing and ran for cover. In hindsight, it probably never really came back...
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