It certainly isn’t an easy time to be setting monetary policy, and as a result the risks of damaging mistakes are higher than usual.

On Thursday, governor Lesetja Kganyago and the rest of the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) delivered a 50-basis-point hike in the repo rate, the largest in six years...

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